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# נַעֲמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5279

**Naamah** — used 4 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

Naamah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5279/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַעֲמָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5279/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. sister of Tubal Cain Gn 4:22 𝔊 Νοεμα, 𝔊L Νοεμμα. Ammonitess, mother of Rehoboam 1 K 14:21 𝔊 Μααχαμ, A Νααμα, 𝔊L Ναανα = 2 Ch 12:13, 𝔊 Νοομμα, 𝔊L Νααμα; also 1 K 14:31 but prob. gloss (om. 𝔊B, 𝔊L, etc.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: \[was\] Naamah (3); Naamah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.22/#tree)

וְצִלָּ֣ה גַם־הִ֗וא יָֽלְדָה֙ אֶת־תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן לֹטֵ֕שׁ כָּל־חֹרֵ֥שׁ נְחֹ֖שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל וַֽאֲח֥וֹת תּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִןתּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִן נַֽעֲמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Zillah also she she.bore (et) Tubal-Cain Tubal-Cain a.sharpener of.every worker of.bronze and iron and.\[was\] the.sister of Tubal-Cain Naamah

*JPS 1917:* And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

[1 Kings 14:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.31/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב רְחַבְעָ֜ם עִם־אֲבֹתָ֗יו וַיִּקָּבֵ֤ר עִם־אֲבֹתָיו֙ בְּעִ֣יר דָּוִ֔ד וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ נַעֲמָ֖ה הָעַמֹּנִ֑ית וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֲבִיָּ֥ם בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.lay.down Rehoboam with ancestors his and he.was.buried with ancestors his in the.city of.David and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Naamah the.Ammonite \[woman\] and he.became.king Abijam son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5279.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5279/): 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).