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# נׇעֳמִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5281

**Naomi** — used 21 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

Naomi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5281/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָעֳמִי: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5281/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. mother-in-law of Ruth, Ru 1:2, 3, 8 + 18 times Ru; 𝔊B Νωεμειν; A Νωεμμειν 1:2, Νοεμμειν v 3, usually Νοομει(ν); 𝔊L Νοομι.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: Naomi (17); of Naomi (3); \[was\] Naomi (1).

## In the verses

[Ruth 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.3/#tree)

וַיָּ֥מָת אֱלִימֶ֖לֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ נָעֳמִ֑י וַתִּשָּׁאֵ֥ר הִ֖יא וּשְׁנֵ֥י בָנֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Elimelech the.husband of.Naomi and she.was.left she and the.two sons her

*JPS 1917:* And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

[Ruth 2:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.1/#tree)

וּֽלְנָעֳמִ֞י מוֹדַ֣ע לְאִישָׁ֗הּ אִ֚ישׁ גִּבּ֣וֹר חַ֔יִל מִמִּשְׁפַּ֖חַת אֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְ וּשְׁמ֖וֹ בֹּֽעַז׃

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to Naomi a.relative of husband her a.man mighty of.wealth from the.clan of.Elimelech and name his \[was\].Boaz

*JPS 1917:* And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of valour, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5281.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5281/): 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).