Nun (Bible)
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[[Image:Nun2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Mark of Nun's grave, [[Timnat Serah]]]]
'''Nun''', in the [[Hebrew Bible]], was a man from the [[Tribe of Ephraim]], grandson of [[Ammihud]], son of Elishama, and father of [[Joshua]]. ({{bibleverse|1|Chronicles|7:26-27|HE}}) He grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the [[Israelites]]' [[Exodus|Egyptian captivity]], where the [[Egypt]]ians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field." ({{Bibleverse||Exodus|1:14|HE}}) In [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]], "nun" means "fish." Thus the [[Midrash]] tells: "[T]he son of him whose name was as the name of a fish would lead them [the Israelites] into the land." ([[Genesis Rabba]] 97:3.)
[[Image:Nun3.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Mark of Nun's grave, [[Timnat Serah]]]]
Tradition places Nun's tomb near that of his son Joshua who, according to {{Bibleverse||Joshua|24:30|HE}}, is buried in [[Timnat Serah]]. The similarly named [[Palestinian]] village of Kifl Hares/Timnat Hares, located northwest of [[Ariel (city)|Ariel]] in the [[Samaria]]n region of the [[West Bank]], now encircles both tombs.
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