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title: נָאַם — utter a prophecy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָאַם (5001), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: utter a prophecy. BDB 1906: vb. denom. utter prophecy, speak as prophet. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָאַם

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«נָאַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **utter a prophecy** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5001 · **BDB:** נָאַם

### Glosses

they.have.uttered (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

utter a prophecy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. utter prophecy, speak as prophet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. utter a prophecy, speak as prophet;— Impf. 3 mpl. וַיִּנְאֲמוּ נְאֻם Je 23:31 and they uttered (in the prophetic manner), it as an utterance (of י׳); they used the prophetic formula (cf. אֹמְרִים נְאֻם י׳ Ez 13:6, 7).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָאַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5001/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 23:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.31/)

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הִנְנִ֥י עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הַלֹּקְחִ֣ים לְשׁוֹנָ֔ם וַֽיִּנְאֲמ֖וּ נְאֻֽם׃

*Word for word:* here I \[am\].on the prophets the.utterance of.Yahweh \[who\] take tongue their and they.have.uttered an.utterance

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues and say: 'He saith.'

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