Bible Dictionary
ADAMI-NEKEB
Adami-Nekeb was a place on the border of Naphtali. It may have been one locality named for a pass, or two separate places called Adami and Nekeb.
Definition
Adami-nekeb was a place named in the description of Naphtali’s border. The name may refer to one locality, “the ground of the pass,” or to two separate places, Adami and Nekeb.
Biblical Usage
It appears in the account of the border of Naphtali. The King James Version presents Adami and Nekeb as separate names, while other textual traditions combine or otherwise distinguish them.
Historical Background
The supplied material records differing identifications near the Jordan and the Sea of Galilee. Nekeb may refer to a pass leading from the eastern precipices near Tiberias.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ad'-a-mi ne'-keb 'adhami ha-neqebh, "the ground of the piercing," (that is of the pass, or defile): A place mentioned in indicating the border of Naphtali (Jos 19:33). In the King James Version, Adami and Nekeb are given as separate names, and it is an open question which view of the matter is correct. Most of the Greek texts give the names as two. The Vulgate has "Adami quae est Neceb." The Jerusalem Talmud gives two names, though instead of Hannekeb or Nekeb it has Siyadathah (Meg 1 1, or Neubauer's Geog du Talmud, 225). In the list of places conquered by Thothmes III of Egypt occurs the name NQBU (Tomkins, Rec of Past, new series, V, 47), which seems to be the same with Neqeb.</p><p>The list of names for the border of Naphtali (Jos 19:33,34) has no name in common with the list of cities (Jos 19:35-38) unless Adami and Adamah are the same. The PE Survey maps locate Adamah at Damieh, about seven miles northwest of the exit of the Jordan from the Lake of Galilee, and Adami at Khurbet Adamah, five or six miles south of the exit. Conder, Tomkins and others place Adami at Damieh, and identify Nekeb by its Talmudic name in the neighboring ruin Seiyadeh. Conder says (art. "Nekeb," HDB) that the "pass" implied in the name Nekeb "is probably one leading from the eastern precipices near Tiberias."</p><p>Willis J. Beecher</p>