{
  "id": "dict_003925",
  "term": "Neah",
  "slug": "neah",
  "letter": "N",
  "entry_type": "biblical_place_name",
  "entry_family": "theological_term",
  "depth_profile": "standard",
  "short_definition": "Neah is an Old Testament place name listed in the boundary description of Zebulun’s inheritance.",
  "simple_one_line": "Neah is a biblical place name mentioned in Joshua’s territorial list for Zebulun.",
  "tooltip_text": "A small place name in the tribal boundary list for Zebulun; its exact location is uncertain.",
  "aliases": [],
  "scripture_references": [],
  "original_language_terms": [],
  "related_entries": [
    "Zebulun",
    "Joshua",
    "Tribal inheritance",
    "Boundary lists"
  ],
  "see_also": [
    "Joshua 19",
    "Canaan",
    "Tribal allotments"
  ],
  "lede_intro": "Neah is a biblical place name mentioned in the tribal boundary description for Zebulun. Scripture gives no narrative details about the site, and its exact location is unknown.",
  "at_a_glance_definition": "Old Testament place name in Zebulun’s allotment.",
  "at_a_glance_key_points": [
    "Mentioned in Joshua’s boundary list for Zebulun",
    "Exact location is uncertain",
    "Has no independent theological doctrine attached to it"
  ],
  "description_academic_short": "Neah appears in the Old Testament as a place associated with the boundary of Zebulun’s inheritance. Scripture gives little detail beyond its role in a territorial listing, so no major doctrine is built on this term.",
  "description_academic_full": "Neah is an Old Testament place name mentioned in connection with the boundary of the tribe of Zebulun (Josh. 19:13). The biblical text does not provide further narrative or theological development about the site, and its exact location is uncertain. As a geographical name rather than a theological concept, Neah should be treated as a biblical place-name entry. A careful dictionary entry should present it simply as a location in Zebulun’s allotted territory and avoid speculative claims beyond what Scripture states.",
  "background_biblical_context": "Neah appears in Joshua’s description of Zebulun’s inheritance. It functions as one point in a list of boundary locations rather than as the setting of a major event.",
  "background_historical_context": "The site has not been identified with confidence by modern scholarship. Like many biblical localities, Neah is known primarily from the biblical text rather than from secure archaeological confirmation.",
  "background_jewish_ancient_context": "In ancient Israel, territorial lists helped define tribal inheritance, borders, and covenant land distribution. Neah belongs to that administrative and geographical framework.",
  "key_texts_primary": [
    "Joshua 19:13"
  ],
  "key_texts_secondary": [
    "Joshua 19:10-16"
  ],
  "original_language_note": "The Hebrew form is a place name whose exact identification is uncertain in modern geography.",
  "theological_significance": "Neah has no direct doctrinal teaching of its own, but it contributes to the biblical witness that God allotted real places to real tribes within Israel’s inheritance.",
  "philosophical_explanation": "As a place name, Neah illustrates how Scripture preserves concrete historical and geographical details. Such details matter because biblical revelation is grounded in actual events and locations, not abstract ideas alone.",
  "interpretive_cautions": "Do not press Neah into symbolic readings or try to identify it with certainty beyond the evidence of the text. Its exact location is not known with confidence.",
  "major_views_note": "Most treatments simply recognize Neah as a minor biblical location in Zebulun’s boundary list and do not attach independent theological significance to it.",
  "doctrinal_boundaries": "Neah should not be treated as a doctrinal term, a moral category, or a typological symbol unless a clear textual basis is given elsewhere in Scripture.",
  "practical_significance": "Neah reminds readers that even brief biblical place references contribute to the historical reality of Israel’s settlement in the land and to the precision of Scripture’s geographical record.",
  "meta_description": "Neah is an Old Testament place name in the boundary list for Zebulun. Its exact location is uncertain and it has no independent theological meaning.",
  "public_url": "/companion-bible-dictionary/neah/",
  "json_url": "/companion-bible-dictionary/data/dictionary/neah.json",
  "final_disposition": "PUBLISH_CANONICAL"
}