נַעֲמָה
Naʻămâh · H5279 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 people
- Naamahwife of Solomon3 verses
- Naamahdescendant of Cain1 verse
Place
Meanings
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Naamah
Woman; daughter of Lamech; descendant of Cain
ExamplesGenesis 4:22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
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Naamah
Woman
Examples1 Kings 14:21 Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
1 Kings 14:31 And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And his son Abijam became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 12:13 So King Rehoboam became powerful in Jerusalem and reigned there. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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Naamah
Town; located in the foothills; territory of Judah
ExamplesJoshua 15:41 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַמּוֹנִיAmmonite 3
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- שֵׁםname 3
- אָחוֹתsister 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of People003001007
- The word is the proper name of Naamah, both a daughter of Lamech (Genesis 4:22) and an Ammonite wife of Solomon and mother of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21), tying the word to these individuals.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word is also the proper name of a town in the lowland of Judah (Joshua 15:41), a place-name use distinct from its personal-name uses.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5279. Na 'amah I. נַעֲמָה proper name, feminine 1. sister of Tubal Cain Gen 4:22 ᵐ5…
'amah I. נַעֲמָה proper name, feminine 1. sister of Tubal Cain Gen 4:22 ᵐ5 Νοεμα, ᵐ5L Νοεμμα.
2 Ammonitess, mother of Rehoboam 1Ki 14:21 ᵐ5 Μααχαμ, A Νααμα, ᵐ5L Ναανα = 2Ch 12:13, ᵐ5 Νοομμα, ᵐ5L Νααμα; also 1Ki 14:31 but probably gloss (omitted by ᵐ5B, ᵐ5L, etc.).
II. נַעֲמָה proper name, of a location city assigned to Judah in Philistine plain Jos 15:41; ᵐ5 Νωμαν, A Νωμα, ᵐ5L Νομα.
נַעֲמִי see below
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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