Word

נַעֲמָן

Naʻămân · H5283 · Hebrew · proper noun · 16 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 people

Naamangeneral11 verses
Nohahfirst named in Genesis 46:212 verses
Naamanfirst named in Numbers 26:402 verses
Naamandescendant of Benjamin1 verse

Meanings

Naaman

Man; son of Bela; tribe of Benjamin

Examples
Genesis 46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Numbers 26:40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
1 Chronicles 8:4 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,
Naaman

Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria

Examples
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in the view of his master, and eminent, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but afflicted with leprosy.
2 Kings 5:2 Now the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a little girl from the land of Israel; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
2 Kings 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said, “And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
Naaman

Man; son of Ehud; tribe of Benjamin

Examples
1 Chronicles 8:7 namely, Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera—he exiled them; and he fathered Uzza and Ahihud.

How it’s used In 6 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 3 groups

עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
אֲרַמִּיAramean 1
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

אָמַרto say 2
הָיָהto be, to become 1
קָצַףto be angry 1
רָאָהto see 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
חָשַׂךְto withhold 1
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִשְׁפָּחָהclan, family 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אַחַרafter, behind 2
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

צָרַעַתskin disease 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 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 1 entry

Names of People003001007: The word is the proper name of Naaman, the Syrian army commander cured of leprosy by Elisha (2 Kings 5:1-27), tying the word to this specific individual.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5283. Naaman II. נַעֲמָן16 proper name, masculine 1. son of Benjamin Gen 46:21, ᵐ5…

H5283. Naaman
II. נַעֲמָן16 proper name, masculine 1. son of Benjamin Gen 46:21, ᵐ5 Νοεμ(μ)αν; = grandson of Benjamin Num 26:40 (twice in verse), ᵐ5 Νοεμα(νει), 1Ch 8:4, 1Ch 8:7 (so ᵐ5 Gen 46:21), ᵐ5 in Chronicles Νοομα, ᵐ5L Ναμει, Νααμαν.
2 Aramaean General 2Ki 5:1-2, 2Ki 5:6 2Ki 5:8t. 2 Kings 5; ᵐ5 Ναιμαν, ᵐ5L Νεεμαν.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People16 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