nov is a proper place name used for the location of priests, David’s visit, a threatened city, and a stopping point near Jerusalem.

The attested use is a proper place designation: it identifies the location associated with Ahimelech and the priests in 1 Samuel, a city attacked in 1 Samuel 22:19, a place where someone stands facing Jerusalem in Isaiah 10:32, and an item in Nehemiah’s place list.

1. Proper name of a place · dominant

   All six forms are tagged Noun · Proper and function as a place designation. In 1 Samuel 22:11 the APB renders the priests as being “in Nob,” while 1 Samuel 22:19 calls it “Nob, the city of the priests”; 1 Samuel 22:9 places the son of Jesse’s arrival there, Isaiah 10:32 has someone stand there and wave toward Jerusalem, and Nehemiah 11:32 includes it among named locations. In 1 Samuel 21:2, the APB renders David’s statement about directing the young men to “a certain place,” so the specific contribution of the proper name is less explicit in that translation.

   1 Samuel 21:21 Samuel 22:111 Samuel 22:191 Samuel 22:9Isaiah 10:32Nehemiah 11:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term directly as “Nob,” including “Nob, the city of the priests” in 1 Samuel 22:19. In 1 Samuel 21:2 it instead renders the surrounding statement with “a certain place”; That wording cannot by itself establish a different use.