Numbers 32:42
And Novach went and captured Kenat, and the villages thereof, and called it Novach, after shmo.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
In Context
41And Yair Ben Menasheh went and captured the settlements thereof, and called them Chavot Ya'ir.
Cross References
Judges 8:11And Gid'on went up by the derech of them that dwelt in ohalim on the east of Novach and Yogbehah, and struck down the machaneh; for the machaneh was unsuspecting, thinking themselves secure.
Psalms 49:11For he seeth that chachamim die, 1 likewise the kesil (foolish) and the ba'ar (brutish, senseless person, dolt) perish, 1 and leave their chayil (wealth) to others. 1
Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42
Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →