Dictionaries :: Nodab

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Nodab:

noble, probably a tribe descended from one of the sons of Ishmael, with whom the trans-Jordanic tribes made war (1Ch 5:19).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Nodab:

vowing of his own accord

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Nodab:

no'-dab (nodhabh; Nadabaioi): A Hagrite clan which, along with Jetur and Naphish, suffered complete defeat at the hands of the trans-Jordanic Israelites (1Ch 5:19). It has been suggested that Nodab is a corruption of Kedemah or of Nebaioth, names which are associated with Jetur and Naphish in the lists of Ishmael's sons (Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:31), but it is difficult to see how even the most careless copyist could so blunder. There is a possible reminiscence of the name in Nudebe, a village in the Chauran.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Nodab:

(nobility) the name of an Arab tribe mentioned only in 1 Chronicles 6:19 in the account of the war of the Reubenites against the Hagarites. 1 Chronicles 5:10-22. It is probable that Nodab, their ancestor, was the son of Ishmael, being mentioned with two of his other sons in the passage above cited, and was therefore a grandson of Abraham.