The word nzḥt usually has been translated as a clan-name. Beeston on the contrary relates nzḥt with the Arabic root nazaḥa "to be distant", so that it's possible to suppose that the name is referring to a group of Sabaeans settled in a remote area from Sabʾ; this group, as Beeston says, was organised into a "tribe" and had its own kabīr-magistrate.