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H5276 נָעֵם (nâʻêm) naw-ame'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to be agreeable (literally or figuratively)

KJV Usage: pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

נָעֵם (na.em) — be pleasant. (Qal) to be pleasant, be beautiful, be sweet, be delightful, be lovely

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · מַנְעַמִּים · נָעִים · נֹעַם · נַעֲמָנִים

Good | Love | ≈ טוב · יפה · מתק

to be lovely, to be pleasant, to be sweet, to be dear = state in which a person or object has qualities that inspire love and appreciation

GEN 49:15 · 2SA 1:26 · PRO 9:17 · SNG 7:7 · EZK 32:19

Well | verb qal

to be pleasant, to be delightful = state in which conditions and circumstances have qualities that inspire appreciation

PSA 141:6 · PRO 2:10

Safe | verb qal

to go well (with someone) = state in which humans are in a condition of well-being

PRO 24:25

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[נָעֵם] vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely;—Qal Pf. 3 fs. נָעֵ֑מָה Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 ms. (of delightful friend) נָעַ֥מְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2 S 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ Ez 32:19; 2 fs. (id.) וּמַה־נָּעַמְתְּ Ct 7:7 how lovely art thou!; 3 pl., of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ ψ 141:6; Impf. 3ms יִנְעָ֑ם: Pr 2:10 (of knowledge); 9:17; 24:25 is impers. c. ל, to them ... shall be delight. ref

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