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# נַעֲמָה

Biblical Hebrew

**Naamah** — 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

Naamah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5de_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַעֲמָה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5de_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city assigned to Judah in Philist. plain Jos 15:41; 𝔊 Νωμαν, A Νωμα, 𝔊L Νομα.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.41/#tree)

וּגְדֵר֕וֹת בֵּית־דָּג֥וֹןבֵּית־דָּג֥וֹן וְנַעֲמָ֖ה וּמַקֵּדָ֑ה עָרִ֥ים שֵׁשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and Gederoth Beth Dagon and Naamah and Makkedah cities six- teen and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5de_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5de_5b8_5d4/): 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).