Exodus 26:18

for the south side southward lit., with not quite the same tautology as the English, towards (the) Negeb, southward. The -Negeb" (properly, as Aram. shews, meaning dry land) is a geographical term denoting the arid district in the S. of Judah (Genesis 12:9 RVm., Joshua 15:21, and often); as this district was on the S. of Canaan, it became the most usual word in Heb. for -south." Its use in the Pent. is an indication that this was written after Israel had lived long enough in Canaan for -négeb" to have acquired this sense. The same pleonasm recurs in Exodus 27:9, and in the " ", Exodus 38:9; Exodus 36:23; Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:28; and there are similar ones in Exodus 27:13 (" Exodus 38:13), Numbers 34:15.