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# נָעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5273

**pleasant** — used 13 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

pleasant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5273/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָעִים: adj. pleasant, delightful [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5273/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. pleasant, delightful (poet.);—abs. נ׳ Pr 22:18 +; cstr. נְעִים 2 S 23:1; pl. נְעִמִים ψ 16:6, נְעִימִם 2 S 1:23, נְעִימִים Pr 23:8; f. נְעִמוֹת ψ 16:11;— delightful הַנֶּאֱהָבִים וְהַנּ׳ בְּחַיֵּיהֶם 2 S 1:23 (of Saul and Jonath.); of wealth, הוֹן יָקָר וְנ׳ Pr 24:4; words Pr 23:8; of acts, etc.: מַה־טּוֹב וּמַה־נּ׳ שֶׁבֶת אַחִים גַּם־יָ֑חַד ψ 133:1; singing praises to י׳, 135:3; 147:1; keeping wise teachings Pr 22:18; as subst. = delight יְכַלּוּ יְמֵיהֶם בַּטּוֹב וּשְׁנֵיהֶם בַּנְּעִימִים Jb 36:11 (of earthly prosperity); of spiritual delights ψ 16:6, 11. lovely, beautiful (physically), Ct 1:16 (‖ יָפֶה).—ψ 81:3; 2 S 23:1 v. ii. נָעִים sub II. נעם.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pleasant (6); \[is\] pleasant (1); \[it is\] pleasant (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 81:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.3/#tree)

שְֽׂאוּ־זִ֭מְרָה וּתְנוּ־תֹ֑ף כִּנּ֖וֹר נָעִ֣ים עִם־נָֽבֶל׃

*Word for word:* lift.up music and beat a.tambourine a.harp pleasant with a.lyre

*JPS 1917:* Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery.

[Proverbs 24:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.4/#tree)

וּ֭בְדַעַת חֲדָרִ֣ים יִמָּלְא֑וּ כָּל־ה֖וֹן יָקָ֣ר וְנָעִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and by knowledge rooms they.are.filled all wealth precious and pleasant

*JPS 1917:* And by knowledge are the chambers filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5273.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5273/): 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).