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# נֹעַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5278

**delightfulness** — used 7 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

delightfulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5278/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫עַם: n.m. delightfulness, pleasantness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5278/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 90:17 delightfulness, pleasantness (Ecclus נועם תירוש 32:6);—נ׳ abs. Zc 11:7 + 4 times; cstr. ψ 27:4; 90:17;— delightfulness of י׳: contemplated in temple ψ 27:4, shewn in his favour, וִיהִי נ׳ אדני … עָלֵינוּ 90:17. name of one of two symbol. staves Zc 11:7, 10. pleasantness, as defining genit.: דַּרְכֵי־נ׳ Pr 3:17; אִמְרֵי־נ׳ 15:26; 16:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of kindness (3); Favor (2); the kindness (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.26/#tree)

תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת רָ֑ע וּ֝טְהֹרִ֗ים אִמְרֵי־נֹֽעַם׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh \[the\].plans of.an.evil.\[person\] and.\[are\] clean words of.kindness

*JPS 1917:* The thoughts of wickedness are an abomination to the LORD; but words of pleasantness are pure.

[Proverbs 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.17/#tree)

דְּרָכֶ֥יהָ דַרְכֵי־נֹ֑עַם וְֽכָל־נְתִ֖יבוֹתֶ֣יהָ שָׁלֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* ways her \[are\].ways of.kindness and all pathways her \[are\].well-being

*JPS 1917:* Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5278.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5278/): 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).