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# נַעֲמָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5283

**Naaman** — used 16 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

Naaman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5283/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַעֲמָן²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5283/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Benj. Gn 46:21, 𝔊 Νοεμ(μ)αν; = grandson of Benj. Nu 26:40(×2), 𝔊 Νοεμα(νει), 1 Ch 8:4, 7 (so 𝔊 Gn 46:21), 𝔊 in Ch Νοομα, 𝔊L Ναμει, Νααμαν. Aramaean general 2 K 5:1, 2, 6 + 8 times 2 K 5; 𝔊 Ναιμαν, 𝔊L Νεεμαν.

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 (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: Naaman (14); of Naaman (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.4/#tree)

וַאֲבִישׁ֥וּעַ וְנַעֲמָ֖ן וַאֲחֽוֹחַ׃

*Word for word:* and Abishua and Naaman and Ahoah

*JPS 1917:* and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah;

[Numbers 26:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.40/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי־בֶ֖לַע אַ֣רְדְּ וְנַעֲמָ֑ן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הָֽאַרְדִּ֔י לְנַֽעֲמָ֔ן מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽנַּעֲמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.descendants of.Bela Ard and Naaman the.clan of the.Ardite\[s\] of Naaman the.clan of the.Naamanite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5283.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5283/): 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).