or the land of Nod. It was to this country that Cain went 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 Hyrcania. St Jerom and the Chaldee interpreters have taken the word Nod in the sense of an appellation, 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.)