Lexical Summary naaman: pleasantness Original Word: נַעֲמָןTransliteration: naaman Phonetic Spelling: (nah-am-awn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: pleasantness Meaning: pleasantness Strong's Concordance pleasant From na'em; pleasantness (plural as concrete) -- pleasant. see HEBREW na'em Brown-Driver-Briggs H5282. naaman I. [נַעֲמָן] noun [masculine] usually pleasantness (so Thes amoenitas), but perhaps epithet of Adonis (so MoPhoen. i. 227 LagSymm. i. 468; Semit. i. 32 who compare red flower called [see Lane1578], i.e. wound of Adonis, whence ἀνεμώη; compare Ew Proph. i. 364 RSProph. vi. n. 10 and see LewyFremdwörter, 49); — only plural נַעֲמָנִים נִטְעֵי Isaiah 17:10 (ᵐ5 φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps = Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double plural see Ges§ 124q; and on Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι see RochetteRev. Archéol. viii. 1851, 105-123 Daremberg et SaglioDict. des Antiquités (1877), i. 73, and references WSmithDict. Antiq. (3) i. 25 Fl in LevyNHWB iv. 229). |
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