נוּן
nun
“Nun”
Definition
Nun or Non, the father of Joshua
or נוֹן; (1 Chronicles 7:27), from H5125 (נוּן); perpetuity,
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Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
נוּן appears 30 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Nun his son, and Joshua his son.
Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
The whole assembly who had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.