NEBO, (anc. geog.), a very high mountain, a part of the mountains Abarim, and their highest top, which Moses was ordered to ascend to take a view of the land of Canaan, and there die. Situated in the land of Moab, over-against Jericho: with a cognominal town at its foot (Ishaah) belonging to the Reubenites, which afterwards returned to the Moabites: in Jerome's time desolate; eight miles to the south of Hesbon.