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title: נַעֲמָנִים — pleasantness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נַעֲמָנִים (5282), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pleasantness. BDB 1906: pleasantness Adonis. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נַעֲמָנִים

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«נַעֲמָנִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pleasantness** — 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:** 5282 · **BDB:** נַעֲמָן

### Glosses

of.pleasantness(es) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pleasantness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5282/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pleasantness Adonis [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5282/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] usually pleasantness (so Thes amoenitas), but perhaps epithet of Adonis (so MoPhoen. i. 227 LagSymm. i. 468; Semit. i. 32 who cp. red flower called شقاىٔق النعمان \[v. Lane1578\], i.e. wound of Adonis, whence ἀνεμώνη; cf. EwProph. i. 364 RSProph. vi. n. 10 and v. LewyFremdwörter, 49);—only pl. נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים Is 17:10 𝔊 φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps = Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double pl. v. Ges§ 124 q; and on Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι v. RochetteRev. Archéol. viii. 1851, 105–123 Daremberg et SaglioDict. des Antiquités (1877), i. 73, and reff. WSmithDict. Antiq. (3) i. 25 Fl in LevyNHWB iv. 229).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נַעֲמָנִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5282/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 17:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.10/)

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כִּ֤י שָׁכַ֙חַתְּ֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׁעֵ֔ךְ וְצ֥וּר מָעֻזֵּ֖ךְ לֹ֣א זָכָ֑רְתְּ עַל־כֵּ֗ן תִּטְּעִי֙ נִטְעֵ֣י נַעֲמָנִ֔ים וּזְמֹ֥רַת זָ֖ר תִּזְרָעֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.have.forgotten the.God your.salvation your and the.rock your.refuge your not you.have.remembered therefore you.plant plantations of.pleasantness(es) and.\[the\] vine.branch of.a.stranger you sow.it

*JPS 1917:* For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold; therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness, and didst set it with slips of a stranger;

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