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Noph @ the Hebrew name of an Egyptian city kjv@Isaiah:19:13; kjv@Jeremiah:2:16 kjv@Jeremiah:44:1 kjv@Jeremiah:46:14 ,19; kjv@Ezekiel:30:13 kjv@Ezekiel:30:16). In kjv@Hosea:9:6 the Hebrew name is Moph, and is translated "Memphis," which is its Greek and Latin form. It was one of the most ancient and important cities of Egypt, and stood a little to the south of the modern Cairo, on the western bank of the Nile. It was the capital of Lower Egypt. Among the ruins found at this place is a colossal statue of Rameses the Great. (
See MEMPHIS.)



Nophah @ blast, a city of Moab which was occupied by the Amorites kjv@Numbers:21:30).