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# נָיֹות

Biblical Hebrew

**Naioth (from the margin)** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Naioth (from the margin) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b9_5d5_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוית: n.pr.loc. sq. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b9_5d5_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Kt (i.e. נָוִית, or נָֽוְיַת, Ginsb), נָיוֹת Qr; prob. n.pr.loc. in Ramah (poss. = habitations, but dub., v. Dr 1 S 19:18 HPS);—abode of prophets 1 S 19:18, 19, 22, 23(×2) and 20:1 (where Baer נוות Kt); sq. בָּרָמָה (except 19:18); 𝔊 Ἀυαθ (ν dropped out after ἐν), so 𝔊L; A Ναυιωθ.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Naioth (6).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.19/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְשָׁא֖וּל לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֣ה דָוִ֔ד בְּנָי֖וֹת בָּרָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to Saul (cmp) there! David \[is\].at Naioth in (the) Ramah

*JPS 1917:* And it was told Saul, saying: 'Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.'

[1 Samuel 19:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.23/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שָׁ֔ם אֶל־נָי֖וֹת בָּרָמָ֑ה וַתְּהִי֩ עָלָ֨יו גַּם־ה֜וּא ר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֗ים וַיֵּ֤לֶךְ הָלוֹךְ֙ וַיִּתְנַבֵּ֔א עַד־בֹּא֖וֹ בְּנָי֥וֹת בָּרָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went there to Naioth in (the) Ramah and it.was on him also he the.spirit of.God and he.went steadily.(go) and he.prophesied until came he at Naioth in (the) Ramah

*JPS 1917:* And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah; and the spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5d9_5b9_5d5_5ea/): 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).