'North' in the Bible

From there he went north to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.