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title: נַעֲמִי — Naamanite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נַעֲמִי (5280), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Naamanite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נַעֲמִי

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«נַעֲמִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Naamanite** — 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:** 5280 · **BDB:** נַעֲמִי²

### Glosses

the.Naamanite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Naamanite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5280/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5280/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. from ii. נַעֲמָן 1, Nu 26:40, read doubtless נעמני (so Sam.).

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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, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נַעֲמִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5280/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.40/)

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וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי־בֶ֖לַע אַ֣רְדְּ וְנַעֲמָ֑ן מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הָֽאַרְדִּ֔י לְנַֽעֲמָ֔ן מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽנַּעֲמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.descendants of.Bela Ard and Naaman the.clan of the.Ardite\[s\] of Naaman the.clan of the.Naamanite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

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