Numbers 32:42Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.
Douay-Rheims

וְנֹ֣בַח הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֥ד אֶת־קְנָ֖ת וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֶ֑יהָ וַיִּקְרָ֧א לָ֦ה נֹ֖בַח בִּשְׁמֽוֹ׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Jerome of Stridon

4th centuryChurch Father

Canath, a settlement in Arabia now known as Canatha, was named Naboth when Naboth claimed it. This area belonged to the tribe of Manasseh and was situated in the region of Trachonitis, close to Vostra.

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Passages read together with this verse.

Ps 49 (48):11
2 Sam 18:18Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.