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title: נָעֵם — be pleasant · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָעֵם (5276), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: be pleasant. BDB 1906: vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָעֵם

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«נָעֵם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be pleasant** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 5276 · **BDB:** נָעֵם

### Glosses

it.will.be.pleasant (2); are.you.lovely (1); it.is.pleasant (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be pleasant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Ph. נעם good Lzb324 (and many n.pr.); Arabic نَعِمَ be plentiful, easy, pleasant; أَنْعَمَ على shew gracious favour toward, often in Qor; Sab. נעם be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 178 CISiv. 19, 11, so Min. HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Old Aramaic in n.pr. Lzb222, 324 Cook82 (נעמתי my darling \[or my songs, cf. II. נ׳\]); 𝔗 נָעִים pleasant,lovely, נְעִימְתָּא loveliness; PräBAS i. 46 f. cp. Ethiopic አደመ: be pleasant, = አንዐመ: );— Pf. 3 fs. נָעֵ֑מָה Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 ms. (of delightful friend) נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2 S 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ Ez 32:19; 2 fs. (id.) מַה־נָּעַמְתְּ Ct 7:7 how lovely art thou! (‖ מַה־יָּפִית); 3 pl., of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ ψ 141:6; Impf. 3 ms. יִנְעָ֑ם: לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ׳ Pr 2:10 (of knowledge); לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ׳ 9:17 (‖ יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); יִנ׳ 24:25 is impers. c. ל, to them … shall be delight.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָעֵם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5276/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 9:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.17/)

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מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְלֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* waters stolen they.are.sweet and bread of.secret.places it.is.pleasant

*JPS 1917:* 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'

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[Song of Songs 7:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.7/)

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מַה־יָּפִית֙ וּמַה־נָּעַ֔מְתְּ אַהֲבָ֖ה בַּתַּֽעֲנוּגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* how! you.are.beautiful and how! you.are.lovely O.love with (the) delights

*JPS 1917:* How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

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