NOD, or the Land of Nod. It was to this country that Cain withdrew after his fratricide, (Gen. iv. 16.). The Septuagint, as well as Josephus, read Naid instead of Nod, and have taken it for the name of a place. It is not easily known what country this was, unless perhaps it was the country of Nyse or Nysea, towards Hycania. St Jerome and the Chaldee interpreters have taken the word Nod in the sense of an appellative, for vagabond or fugitive; "He dwelt a fugitive in the land." But the Hebrew reads, "He dwelt in the land of Nod," (Gen. iv. 16.)