Lexicon naem: to be pleasant, delightful, or lovely Original Word: נָעֵםPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: naem Phonetic Spelling: (naw-ame') Short Definition: pleasant NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be pleasant, delightful, or lovely NASB Translationdelight (1), delightful (1), pleasant (5), surpass in beauty (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [ נָעֵם] verb be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Phoenician נעם good Lzb 324 (and many proper names); Arabic  be plentiful, easy, pleasant; shew gracious favour toward, often in Qoran; Sabean נעם be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-Os ZMG xix (1865), 178 CIS iv. 19, 11; so Minaean Hom Südar. Chrest. 128; Old Aramaic in proper name Lzb 222, 324 Cook 82 ( נעמתי my darling [or my songs, compare II. ׳נ]); ᵑ7 נָעִים pleasant, lovely, נְעִימְתָּא loveliness; Prä Bas 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) נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2 Samuel 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ 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 ׃יִנְעָ֑ם ׳לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ Proverbs 2:10 (of knowledge); ׳לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ Proverbs 9:17 ("" יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); ׳יִנ Proverbs 24:25 is impersonal with ל, to them...shall be delight.
Strong's 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. |
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