Na'chon (Heb. Kakon', Tl-S, 7^re;ja?-efZ; Sept. Nax^j', V. r. 'Sax'^p and even 'Qcdc'), a name given only as identifying a threshing-floor near which Uzzah was slain, for laying his hand upon the ark (2 Sam. vi, 6). It is doubted whether this be a proper name, de- noting the owner of the floor, or merely an epithet ap- plied to it, i. e. the prepared floor (so the Targum of Jonathan ; comp. Buxtorf, Lex. Rabb. col. 2647), This floor could not have been far from Jerusalem, and must have nearly adjoined the house of Obed-edom, in which the ark was deposited. In the parallel text (1 Chron. xiii, 9) the place is called the floor of Chidon, which some suppose to be another name of the owner (Talm. Bab. Sotah, iii, fol. 35). See Chidon. Another method of identifying the two names is to regard Nachon as derived from ilD3, to smite, because Jehovah smote Uzzah there; and Chidon as containing a figurative allusion to the divine javelin which smote him. In any case Perez-Uzzah (q. v.) afterwards became the local designation of the spot,
Na'chor, a more accurate form of the name Nahoe (q.v.), meaning: («) Abraham's grandfather (Luke iii, 34), (h) his brother (Josh, xxiv, 2),
Nachshon ben - Zadok, a Jewish writer of the early period in the development of post-Christian Juda- ism, was gaon at the academy of Sura or Sora, A.D. 890-898. He is the author of a great number of (jues- tions and answers (mnVi:ri-1 mbxd), and wrote ex- planations of difficult passages in the Talmud, which explanations are reprinted in the Responsa Gaonim (Berl. 1848), ed, Cassel. To Nachshon is also attrib- uted the perpetual calendar {Iggul di R. Nachshon), founded upon a period of nineteen years, which was
proved to be not quite correct by the learned Spaniards of the 10th and 11th centuries, but was, nevertheless, made the foundation of calendar tables (mmb, from nib, a table), by some later writers, as Jacob ben-Asher, at Toledo, and has retained a place in some works near- ly to the present time. This same Nachshon is prob- ably also the author of the chronicle entitled "nD DiX^inXI D1X3P, a treatise upon the Tanaim and Amoraim, critically edited by Luzzatto in Kerem chemed, (1839), iv, 184 sq. See Griitz, Gesch. d. Juden, v, 280'; Fiirst, Bibl. .Tudaica, iii, 9; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Biblioth. Bodkiana, p, 2020; Scaliger, Be Emendatione Temporum, ii, 132 sq. ; Luzzatto, Ca- lendario Ebraico per venti secoli ; Schwarz, Der Jiid. Kalender (Breslau, 1872), p. 78. (B. P.)
Nachtigall (Latin Luscinius), Ottomar, a Ro- man Catholic polemic, was born at Strasburg about 1487. After having studied belles-lettres and jurispru- dence at the universities of Paris, Louvain, Padua, and Vienna, he visited a large part of Europe, particularly Hungary and Italy, and even some parts of Asia. Dur- ing this time he was in holy orders. On his return to Germany he preached in different places, among others at Augsburg, where he joined the famous Geiler of Kaisersberg. In 1514 he returned to his native town, where for several years he gave lessons in Greek, a language in which he excelled, in the convent of St. Ulric at Augsburg. In 1528 he was removed from his chair, on account of his sermons against the doctrines of Luther. The following year he established himself at Freiburg, in Brisgau, where he continued to preach against the Reformed doctrines. He died about 1535. Nachtigall was renowned among his contem- poraries for his extensive and varied learning, and was very satirical, Erasmus and Hutten being tlie special subjects of his satire. The following are his works, Carmen heroicwn Grcecum quo J. Geileri Kaisersbergii obitum decantat (Strasburg, 1510, 4to) -.—Institutioms musicm (Strasburg, 1515 and 1536, 4to ; Augsburg, 1542, 4to) : — Progymnasmata Grcecm litteraturoa (Strasburg, 1517 and 1523, 4to) : — Grunnius sopjiista, sive Pelagus humance miseries, quo docetur utrius natura ad virtutem et felicitatem propius accedat, hominis an bruti animantis (Strasburg, 1522, 8vo ; see ^cheWxorn, A masnitates lit- terarice, vol. x) : — Evangelica Historia, e Graeco versa (Augsburg, 1523, 4to), Nachtigall himself finished a German translation of this version of the Gospels, which in some respects may be compared to a concord- ance, under the title Joci et sales (Augsburg, 1524, 8vo ; Frankfort, 1602, 8vo). Nachtigall has also made a German translation of the Psalms of David (Augs- burg, 1524, 4to), and published editions of classical writ- ers. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v. ; Schel- horn, A masnitates litterarim, vi, 455 ; Niceron, Memoires, vol. xxxii ; Rotermund's Supplement to Jocher's Allgem. Gelehrtm-Lexikon, s. v. (J. H. W.)
ITa'dab (Heb. Nadab', 315, liberal [see Simonis Onom. V. T. p. 409]; Sept. Naia/3), the name of four men.
1. (Josephus, tia^aSoQ, A nt. iii, 8, 1 and 7.) The eld- est (Exod. vi, 23 ; Numb, iii, 2) of the four sons of Aaron by Elisheba, who were anointed, with their father, to bepriestsof Jehovah (Exod. xxviii,!). B.C. 1657. He, his father and brother, and seventy old men of Israel, were led out from the midst of the assembled people (Exod. xxiv, 1), and were commanded to stay and wor^ ship God " afar off," below the lofty summit of Sinai, where Moses alone was to come near to the Lord. Sub- sequently he, with his brother Abihu, offered incense with strange or common tire to the Lord, instead of that which had been miraculously kindled and was per- petually kept burning upon the altar of burnt offerings; and they were immediately consumed by a fire from the presence of God (Lev. x, 1, 2 ; Numb, iii, 4 ; xxvi, 60, 1). They left no children (1 Chron, xxiv, 2). From the