inheritance; valley of God
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
NAHALIEL.A station in the journey from the Arnon to Jericho (Num_21:19), either Wâdy Waleh, a N.E. tributary of the Arnon, or the Wâdy Zerka Main, farther north, which runs into the Dead Sea.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("torrent of God".) A station of Israel toward the close of their journey to Canaan (Num_21:19), N. of Arnon, the next stage but one to Pisgah. Probably the wady Encheyle with the letters transposed; it runs into Mojeb, the ancient Arnon.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Naha'liel. (torrents of God). One of the halting-places of Israel, in the latter part of their progress to Canaan. Num_21:19. It lay "beyond," that is, north of, the Arnon, Num_21:13, and between Mattanah and Bamoth, the next after Bamoth being Pisgah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
na-hā?li-el, na-hal?i-el (נחליאל, naḥalı̄'ēl, ?torrent valley of God?; Codex Vaticanus Μαναήλ, Manaḗl; Codex Alexandrinus Νααλιήλ, Naaliḗl): A place where Israel encamped on the way from Arnon to Jericho, named with Mattanah and Bamoth Num_21:19. Eusebius, Onomasticon places it near to the Arnon. It is natural to seek for this ?torrent valley? in one of the tributaries of the Arnon. It may be Wâdy Wāleh, which drains a wide area to the Northeast of the Arnon; or perhaps Wâdy Zerḳā Ma‛ı̄n farther to the North.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Naha?liel, an encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness [WANDERING].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Nahaliel
(Heb. Nachaliel', נִחֲלַיאֵל, possession [or valley] of God; Sept. Νααλιήλ v.r. Μαναήλ), the fifty-fourth encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness, between Mattanah and Bamoth (Num_21:19), apparently in the northern part of the plain Ard Ramadan, south-east of Jebel Humeh, perhaps on the northern branch of Wady Waleh (Bunrckhardt. 2:635). SEE EXODE. It lay "beyond," that is, north of the Arnon (Num_21:13), and between Mattanah and Bamoth, the next after Bamoth being Pisgah. It does not occur in the catalogue of Numbers 33, nor anywhere besides the passage quoted above. By Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Naaliel) it is mentioned as close to the Arnon. Mr. Grove, in Smith's Dict., suggests that "its name seems to imply that it was a stream or wady, and it is not impossibly preserved in that of the Wady Encheyle, which runs into the Mojeb, the ancient Arnon, a short distance to the east of the place at which the road between Rabba and Aroer crosses the ravine of the latter river. The name Encheyle, when written in Hebrew letters (אנחילה), is little more than נחליאלtransposed." SEE MATTANAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.