Negeb
- a variation of Negev.
Example Sentences
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Conducting an archaeological survey of the Negev in 1914, Lawrence noticed “long and puzzling walls which, like those elsewhere in the Negeb, appear to start and go on and end so aimlessly.”
From National Geographic ● Aug. 11, 2016
An entire civilization once flourished in the Negeb, with terraced lands, inns for wayfarers and broad-avenued cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It headed north into the Negeb desert, toward Beersheba and civilization, wheezing and jogging for hours through the cratered wasteland that comprises half of Israel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Negeb desert, Bunche thought, would provide a good starting point.
From Time Magazine Archive
The survivors of Simeon also appear to have been forced back upon these Hezronites in the Negeb; the cities assigned to them in the Book of Joshua all belong to that region.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
