A RAISED SIGNAL — a banner, standard or signal-pole: something lifted high specifically so that it can be seen from a distance and rallied to. ⭐ The word matters at Numbers 21:8 because the cure depends entirely on being LOOKED at, so the object has to be the kind of thing that is put up to be looked at. This translation reads ‘banner pole’ there for consistency with Exodus 17:15, where Moses names an altar Jehovah nissi and this project renders it ‘Jehovah is my banner’. ⚠ The shelf scatters more widely on this word than on almost anything else in the chapter: pole, standard, ‘for a sign’, ‘signal pole’, and — in the RV 1909 alone on either shelf — «la bandera». Isaiah 49:22 lifts a nes to the nations to bring Israel’s children home, which is the same image at national scale. → first discussed at Num 21:8