Lexical Summary naem: to be pleasant, delightful, or lovely Original Word: נָעֵםTransliteration: naem Phonetic Spelling: (naw-ame') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be pleasant, delightful, or lovely Meaning: to be pleasant, delightful, or lovely Strong's Concordance pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet A primitive root; to be agreeable (literally or figuratively) -- pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5276. naem I. [נָעֵם] verb be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Phoenician נעם good Lzb324 (and many proper names); Arabic be plentiful, easy, pleasant; shew gracious favour toward, often in Qoran; Sabean נעם be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 178 CISiv. 19, 11; so Minaean HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Old Aramaic in proper name Lzb222, 324 Cook82 (נעמתי my darling [or my songs, compare II. ׳נ]); נָעִים ᵑ7 pleasant, lovely, נְעִימְתָּא loveliness; PräBas i. 46 f. compare Ethiopic be pleasant, = ); — Qal Perfect3feminine singular נָעֵ֑מָה Genesis 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 masculine singular (of delightful friend) מְאֹד לִי נָעַמְתָּ 2 Samuel 1:26, also (of physical beauty) נָעָ֑מְתָּ מִמִּי Ezekiel 32:19; 2feminine singular (id.) מַהנָּֿעַמְתְּ Cant 7:7 how lovely art thou ! ("" מַהיָּֿפִית); 3 plural, of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ Psalm 141:6; Imperfect3masculine singular יִנ ׳לְנַפְשְׁךָ ׃יִנְעָ֑ם Proverbs 2:10 (of knowledge); יִנ סְתָרִים ׳לֶחֶם 9:17 ("" יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); ׳יִנ 24:25 is impersonal with ל, to them...shall be delight. |
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