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noÌ„-ā´mon (×מון × ×, noÌ„' 'aÌ„moÌ„n, Egyptian nut, “a city,†with the feminine ending t, and Amon, proper name of a god, City Amon, i.e. the “City,†paragraph excellence, of the god Amon; translated in the King James Version “populous No,†following the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) in a misunderstanding of the word 'aÌ„moÌ„n; the Revised Version (British and American) “No-amonâ€): Occurs in this form only in , but ×ž× Ö¼× ×מון, 'aÌ„moÌ„n minnoÌ„', “Amon of No,†occurs in . Compare also -16, where × ×, noÌ„', is undoubtedly the same city.
The description of No-amon in seems to be that of a delta city, but ×™×, yaÌ„m, “sea†in that passage is used poetically for the Nile, as in and in . With this difficulty removed, the Egyptian etymology of the name leaves no doubt as to the correct identification of the place. The “City Amon†in the days of Nahum, Jeremiah and Ezekiel was Thebes (compare the article “Thebes†in any general encyclopedia).