What is the land of NOD? What does it mean?

Answer 1

The above answer by "timbo" is correct. The Land of Nod is in the Bible, Genesis 4:16, referring to Cain. And I assume this is what you are referring to.

But there also is a nursery rhyme by Robert Louis Stevenson called the "The Land of Nod".

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay.
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the Land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do,
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are these for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the Land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

Answer 2

The Land of Nod is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "to the east of Eden", to which Cain was banished after murdering his brother Abel. The Hebrew word nod means "wandering".

"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." (Genesis 4:16, King James Version)

This passage is generally recognized as a mistranslation; "Nod"(נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander"(לנדוד). The simplest interpretation of Genesis 4:16 is that Cain was cursed to wander the land, not that he was exiled to a "Land of Wanderers" otherwise absent from the Old Testament.

Answer 3

The Land of Nod is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "to the east of Eden", to which Cain was banished after murdering his brother Abel. The Hebrew word nod means "wandering".

"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." (Genesis 4:16, King James Version)

This passage is generally recognized as a mistranslation; "Nod"(נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander"(לנדוד). The simplest interpretation of Genesis 4:16 is that Cain was cursed to wander the land, not that he was exiled to a "Land of Wanderers" otherwise absent from the Old Testament.

Answer 4

The Land of Nod is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "to the east of Eden", to which Cain was banished after murdering his brother Abel. The Hebrew word nod means "wandering".

"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." (Genesis 4:16, King James Version)

This passage is generally recognized as a mistranslation; "Nod"(נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander"(לנדוד). The simplest interpretation of Genesis 4:16 is that Cain was cursed to wander the land, not that he was exiled to a "Land of Wanderers" otherwise absent from the Old Testament.

Answer 5

Land of Fugitiveness

Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

(YLT) And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

There are no archeological findings on Nod.
Therefore, it was probably just an area east of Eden as described.

Answer 6

The land of NOD is the place at your desk where you take a nap after lunch!!!LOL

Answer 7

The Land of Nod is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "to the east of Eden", to which Cain was banished after murdering his brother Abel. The Hebrew word nod means "wandering".

"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." (Genesis 4:16, King James Version)
This passage is generally recognized as a mistranslation; "Nod"(נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb "to wander"(לנדוד). The simplest interpretation of Genesis 4:16 is that Cain was cursed to wander the land, not that he was exiled to a "Land of Wanderers" otherwise absent from the Old Testament.

Land of Nod is the name of a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located at the far end of a two mile long road which joins the A614 road at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. The Land of Nod is also a large house (now exclusive hotel) and forested estate situated in Headley Down, Hampshire owned by the Whitaker family.

The term has more recently been associated with being asleep, and was supposedly first used in this context in print by Jonathan Swift in his A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738). Another is a poem titled The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson from the A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods collection.

Neil Gaiman used the term to refer to The Dreaming in his The Sandman series of graphic novels.

In the World of Darkness role-playing setting by White Wolf Game Studio, the land of Nod is the home in exile of Caine, the first vampire.

East of Eden, The bible was read to James Dean, speaking of him as Cain, and being banished to the Land of Nod, East of Eden, the title of the film.

The above quote is mentioned in Command and Conquer, and is thought to be the origin of the name for the Brotherhood of Nod.

Colloquially, the state of heroin or opioid intoxication is referred to as "being in the land of Nod". This is because the most pleasant phase of the high is characterized by people "nodding off" into their own little world.

Tom Waits mentions the land of Nod in his song Singapore from the 1985 album "Rain Dogs", "We sail tonight for Singapore, we're all as mad as hatters here I've fallen for a tawny Moor, took off to the land of Nod..."

Bob Dylan sings in his song Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum from the 2001 album "Love and Theft", "Livin' in the Land of Nod, Trustin' their fate to the hands of God"

The German rock group Unloved uses the phrase "heading nod" in its correspondent song from the 2006 album "Killersongs" as metaphor for dealing with unpardonable guilt. Nod becomes not a certain land but a state of self-forgiveness ("It only remains for me to leave, a ridiculous 'sorry' on my lips. it only remains for me to live, telling, i didn't mean it").

The term is also used on the AM radio show Coast to Coast AM to describe the location from where the program is transmitted

Answer 8

2 B Asleep.

Answer 9

Wandering around aimlessly falling asleep & not resting anywhere in any town or dwelling place. Having no place to call home.

Answer 10

that's the name of mi anti virus programme