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# נָעֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5276

**be pleasant** — used 8 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

be pleasant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָעֵם: vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Ph. נעם good Lzb324 (and many n.pr.); Arabic نَعِمَ be plentiful, easy, pleasant; أَنْعَمَ على shew gracious favour toward, often in Qor; Sab. נעם be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 178 CISiv. 19, 11, so Min. HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Old Aramaic in n.pr. Lzb222, 324 Cook82 (נעמתי my darling \[or my songs, cf. II. נ׳\]); 𝔗 נָעִים pleasant,lovely, נְעִימְתָּא loveliness; PräBAS i. 46 f. cp. Ethiopic አደመ: be pleasant, = አንዐመ: );— Pf. 3 fs. נָעֵ֑מָה Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 ms. (of delightful friend) נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2 S 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ Ez 32:19; 2 fs. (id.) מַה־נָּעַמְתְּ Ct 7:7 how lovely art thou! (‖ מַה־יָּפִית); 3 pl., of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ ψ 141:6; Impf. 3 ms. יִנְעָ֑ם: לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ׳ Pr 2:10 (of knowledge); לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ׳ 9:17 (‖ יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); יִנ׳ 24:25 is impers. c. ל, to them … shall be delight.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 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: it will be pleasant (2); are you lovely (1); it is pleasant (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.17/#tree)

מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְלֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* waters stolen they.are.sweet and bread of.secret.places it.is.pleasant

*JPS 1917:* 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'

[Song of Songs 7:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/#tree)

מַה־יָּפִית֙ וּמַה־נָּעַ֔מְתְּ אַהֲבָ֖ה בַּתַּֽעֲנוּגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* how! you.are.beautiful and how! you.are.lovely O.love with (the) delights

*JPS 1917:* How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5276.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/): 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).