Word

נָאוֶה

nâʼveh · H5000 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

beautiful, lovely

State in which humans or parts of their body are considered physically attractive

Examples
Song of Solomon 1:5 “I am black and beautiful, You daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 2:14 “My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding place of the mountain pathway, Let me see how you look, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is pleasant, And you look delightful.”
Song of Solomon 4:3 “Your lips are like a scarlet thread, And your mouth is beautiful. Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
appropriate, fitting, becoming

Literally: beautiful; hence: state in which a certain event is considered appropriate in a particular context

Examples
Psalm 33:1 Sing for joy in the LORD, you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright.
Psalm 147:1 Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is beautiful.
Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less are lying lips to a prince.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּתdaughter 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דָּמָהto cease 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

7 occurrences in 6 groups

תְּהִלָּהpraise 2
כָּבוֹדglory, honor 1
מִדְבָּרwilderness, desert 1
מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
שָׂפָהlip 1
תַּעֲנוּגcomfort 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

טוֹב ṭôwb · H2896 · good, nice, beautiful: One term ("good, beautiful, better") and the other ("comely, seemly, becoming") are evaluative adjectives with overlapping positive-quality senses, plausibly interchangeable in contexts of appropriateness or aesthetic/moral goodness.
יָפֶה yâpheh · H3303 · beautiful, handsome, proper: Both terms describe aesthetic or moral positivity — beautiful, comely, fair versus comely, seemly, becoming — overlapping in the sense of fittingness or attractiveness.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Good002001001031: נָאוֶה describes what is becoming, comely, or fitting, as in Psalm 33:1's praise being "becoming" to the upright, or Song of Solomon's beloved being lovely and comely, tying the word to an approved, favorable quality.
Right002001003013: The word also expresses appropriateness to a particular role or situation, as in Proverbs 17:7 and 19:10's excellent speech or luxury being unfitting for a fool, associating the term with what suits or does not suit a given circumstance.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָאָה nâʼâh · H4998 · to be beautiful, to be appropriate, to be welcome · 3×נָאָה nâʼâh · H4999 · habitation, abode, haunt · 13×נָאוֶהnâʼveh · H5000

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5000. naveh נָאוֶה adjective comely, seemly; — ׳נ masculine Son 2:14 Son 2:3t.; feminine…

H5000. naveh
נָאוֶה adjective comely, seemly; — ׳נ masculine Son 2:14 Son 2:3t.; feminine נָאוָה Psa 33:1 Psa 33:4t., נָוָה Jer 6:2; —
1 comely, beautiful, of woman Son 1:5; Son 6:4 (|| יָפָה) of face Son 2:14 (מַרְאֶה) so נָוָה Jer 6:2 (figurative of Jerusalem; || מְעֻנָּגָה); of mouth Son 4:3 (|| שְׂפָתוֺת).
2 seemly, of praise תְּהִלָּה Psa 33:1; Psa 147:1; subject שְׂפַתיֶֿתֶר Pro 17:7 (compare Son 4:3); תַּעֲנוּג Cant 19:10; כָּבוֺד Cant 26:1. So also Psa 93:5 Masora (anomalous feminine) see [נאה] above
נְאוֺת see II. [ נָוָה] below II. נוה.
נאם √ of following; compare groan, sigh; perhaps also Late Hebrew נוּם speak).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Good4 occurrences Right5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0