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Numbers 32:42

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And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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  1. 2 Samuel 18:18Rank 1 from verse 42
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    18¶ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

  2. Psalms 49:11Rank 2 from verse 42
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    11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

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Numbers 32:42

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villages

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Small settlements or groups of dwellings, commonly unwalled and associated with nearby cities, fields, or country districts.

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called

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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32:34¶ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

32:35And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

32:36And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

32:37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

32:38And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

32:39And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

32:40And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

32:41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.

32:42And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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