prophecy; growing of a tooth
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
NIBSHAN.A city in the desert of Judah (Jos_15:62). The name has not been recovered.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
One of the six cities of Judah in the midbar, "wilderness," the low district adjoining the Dead Sea.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Nib'shan. (soft soil). One of the six cities of Judah, Jos_15:62, which were in the district of the Midbar. (Authorized Version, "wilderness").
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
nib?shan (הכּבשׁן, ha-nibhshān; Codex Vaticanus Ναφλαζών, Naphlazṓn; Codex Alexandrinus Νεβσάν, Nebsán): A city in the Judean wilderness named between Secacah and the City of Salt (Jos_15:62). Eusebius, Onomasticon, knows the place but gives no clue to its identification. The site has not been recovered. Wellhausen suggests the emendation of nibhshān to kibhshān, ?furnace? (Proleg.2, 344).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Nibshan
(Heb. Nibshan', נַבְשָׁן[but with the def. article], light soil [Gesen.l or fortress [Furst]; Sept. Νεβσάν v.r. Ναφλαζών), a city in the wilderness of Judah, mentioned between Secacah and the City of Salt (Jos_15:62). It is barely mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Nephram). It is possibly the ruined site marked on Van de Velde's Mlap as Kasi el-Zeiman on Wady Hasaseh, which runs up from the Dead Sea not far N. of Ain-Jidy.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.