NOISOME
all that lande’; 28" Tind. ‘And this sayinge is noysed amonge the Jewes unto this daye’; and Hacket in Life of Abp. Williams (referring to Dr. Collins), ‘His works in print against Eudaemon and Fitzherbert, sons of Anak among the Jesuits, do noise him far and wide.’ J. HASTINGS.
NOISOME is a shortened form of ‘annoy-some.’ And ‘annoy’ is regarded by Skeat and Murray (after Diez) as formed (through the Fr.) from the Lat. in odio. The phrase est mihi in odio, ‘it is hateful to me,’ became contracted to inodio, which was regarded as a subst., ‘hate,’ ‘annoyance.’ In AV the word is used of weeds (Job 31%"), pestilence (Ps 91°), beasts (Ezk 1418. 21), a smell (2 Mac 9°), and a sore (Rev 167), and the meaning is always trouble- some, not as now loathsome.* ench (On AV o, NT, p. 47) says that in the beginning of the 17t cent. the word was acquiring its mod. meaning, and on that account Tindale’s rendering of 1 Ti 6° ‘They that wilbe ryche, faule into temptacion and snares, and into many folysshe and noysome lustes,’ which all the versions till 1611 (except the Rhemish) accepted, was changed in AV into ‘ hurt- ful lusts.’ In the Act of Henry vim. prohibiting the use of Tindale’s version (1543) it is stated to be requisite that the land be purged ‘of all such bookes, writinges, sermones, disputacions, argu- mentes, balades, plaies, rimes, songs, teachinges and instructions, as be pestiferous and noysome.’ Tindale speaks of the flies in the Egyptian plague as ‘noysom’ (Ex 85). Cranmer’s meaning is the same when he writes to Henry vit. (Works, i. 160), ‘I was purposed this week according to m duties to have waited upon yom Grace, but Ἷ am so vexed with a catarrh and a rheum in my head, that not only it should be dangerous «unto me, but also noisome unto your Grace, Ὁ reason of extreme coughing and excreations whic I cannot eschew.’ But Fuller (Holy State, 305) is more modern : ‘ When the soul (the best perfume of the body) is departed from it, it becomes so noysome a carcasse, that should I make a descrip- tion of the lothsomnesse thereof, some dainty dames would hold their noses in reading it.’
J. HASTINGS.
NON.—1 Ch 7” AV and RVm. See Nun.
NOOMA (A Nooud, B’Ooud, AV Ethma, probably due to confusion of 0O and ΕΘ, 1 Es 9*).—The name is a corruption of Nebo (3), Ναβού) in the parallel list of Ezr 10*.
NOPH (3, Μέμφις, Memphis) is named in Is 1915 with Zoan, in Jer 215 with Tahpanhes, 441 with Migdol and Tahpanhes, cf. 46%, and in Ezk 3015. 16 with other cities as representative of Eaypt. Hos 9° gives Moph (nb, Μέμφις, Memphis). It is clear that as early as the LXX it was regarded as the Hebrew name for Memphis. The early Egyptian name for this city was Mn-n/fr, Stele of P’nhy, 87. This would be heard as Mén-niifér, and later as Mén-niife, thence Ménft. The cnet ee in the time of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal already give Mimpi, the Babylonian chronicle Membi (time of Darius). The Coptic forms Mem/i, Men/i, and the Arabic Menf show this pronunciation to have been native. The Hebrew transformation may have arisen from dropping the men, the πῆ δ is well preserved in Noph ἴοι another explanation see art. MEMPHIS], and Moph only shows the same change as in Memfi. That Memphis took such a
rominent position in Egypt is confirmed by Esar- | PEERS who calls it the capital of Tirhakah, and
* Trench (On AV of NT, later meanings of the word been noisome in Old noisome in modern.
ishes the earlier and at a tiger would have
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NOSE, NOSTRILS
later speaks of it as the residence of Necho along with Sais.
Plutarch’s derivation of the name (de Isid. 20) seems to rest on a confusion of the Egyptian mn and mn’i. On the other hand, an attempt to identify Noph with Napata, Tirhakah’s Ethiopian capital, is hopeless. For the history of Noph see MEMPHIS.
LiTzRaTURE.—Meyer, Gesch. 42gyp. p. 336 ; Steindorff, Beir. Asayr. i. p. 694. *c. ἢ. W. JouNs.
NOPHAH (n>; Vulg. Nophe), mentioned only in Nu 21”, by some identified with Nobah of Jg 8" [see NoBAH]. If this be allowed, the remainder of the verse must be translated as Syr. ‘which is oe the desert’ (midhbar), and the Medeba of
e MT, AV, RV disappears. Another suggested translation is ‘we have Vaid waste so that fire was kindled unto Medeba.’ The LXX [καὶ al γυναῖκες ἔτι προσεξέκαυσαν πῦρ ἐπὶ Μωάβ] translates neither Nophah nor Medeba. But the text of the verse is uncertain. See Dillmann on the passage, and G. A. Smith, HGHL p. 560 note. Cf. art. MEDEBA. A. T. CHAPMAN.
NORTH COUNTRY, THE (ἡδὺ prx).—An expres- sion, occurring nine times in AV, and used vaguely to denote the distant regions N. and NE. of Palestine, including at least the N. parts of Babylonia, and sometimes almost idealized as the home of Israel’s foes. In Jer 6" it is the quarter from which Jer. expects the foe—whether Scythians or Babylonians (see LOT 237 f.)—to advance against Judah; 10%, as also Zec 6%*®8, the reference is most probably to Babylonia; 23° 31° it is the quarter whence the exiled Israelites will be restored ; 4610 Carchemish (v.?), on the upper course of the Euphrates, nearly N.N.E. of Palestine, is alluded to as ‘in the north country’; and 50° the foes of Babylon are to assemble from the ‘north iter In Jer 3°16", Zec 2° the Heb. is also the same (AV, RV ‘land of the north’). Naturally, the expression cannot be dissociated from ‘ the north’ alone, which, esp. in Jeremiah, is constantly spoken of as the