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# נָאַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5001

**utter a prophecy** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

utter a prophecy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָאַם: vb. denom. utter prophecy, speak as prophet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. utter a prophecy, speak as prophet;— Impf. 3 mpl. וַיִּנְאֲמוּ נְאֻם Je 23:31 and they uttered (in the prophetic manner), it as an utterance (of י׳); they used the prophetic formula (cf. אֹמְרִים נְאֻם י׳ Ez 13:6, 7).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have uttered (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 23:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.31/#tree)

הִנְנִ֥י עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הַלֹּקְחִ֣ים לְשׁוֹנָ֔ם וַֽיִּנְאֲמ֖וּ נְאֻֽם׃

*Word for word:* here I \[am\].on the prophets the.utterance of.Yahweh \[who\] take tongue their and they.have.uttered an.utterance

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues and say: 'He saith.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5001.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).