H5276

נָעֵם

na.emH:V

be pleasant

(Qal) to be pleasant, be beautiful, be sweet, be delightful, be lovely

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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-Os^{ZMG xix (1865), 178} CIS^{iv. 19, 11}; so Minaean Hom^{Südar. Chrest. 128}; Old Aramaic in proper name Lzb^{222, 324} Cook⁸² (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 Perfect 3 feminine singular נָעֵ֑מָה Gen 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 masculine singular (of delightful friend) נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2Sam 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ Ezek 32:19 2 feminine singular (id.) מַהנָּֿעַמְתְּ Song 7:7 how lovely art thou ! (|| מַהיָּֿפִית); 3 plural, of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ Ps 141:6 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ׃יִנְעָ֑ם ׳לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ Prov 2:10 (of knowledge); ׳לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ Prov 9:17 (|| יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); ׳יִנ Prov 24:25 is impersonal with ל, to them...shall be delight.

4 occurrences

Genesis (1), II Samuel (1), Proverbs (1), Ezekiel (1)