5427 nomads
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People who moved about from place to place, having no settled abode. They lived in tents and frequented desert places

Examples of nomads

The patriarchs

Psalm 105:12-13; Hebrews 11:8-9 See also Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:3,15,18; Genesis 26:25; Genesis 31:25; Genesis 35:21; Deuteronomy 26:5; 1 Chronicles 16:18-20

Israel during her desert wanderings

Numbers 32:13 See also 1 Chronicles 17:5-6 The Tabernacle was designed as a place of worship during this nomadic existence.

Other nomadic peoples

Genesis 4:20 Jabal; Judges 4:17 the Kenites

The Midianites:

Judges 6:3; Habakkuk 3:7

Kedar:

Psalm 120:5; Jeremiah 49:28-29; Ezekiel 25:4 Isaiah 13:20 Arabs; Jeremiah 35:1-11 The Recabites retained their nomadic ways long after Israel had settled in the land of Canaan.

Desert tracks followed by nomads

Judges 8:11; Jeremiah 3:2

The nomadic life as a spiritual symbol

1 Peter 2:11 See also Hebrews 11:13-16; 1 Peter 1:17

Jesus Christ as a nomad

Matthew 8:20

See also

5076  Abraham, life of
5244  camp
5578  tents
5590  travel
7221  exodus, the
7459  tabernacle, in OT
7530  foreigners



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