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title: נַעֲמָתִי — Naamathite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נַעֲמָתִי (5284), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Naamathite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נַעֲמָתִי

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«נַעֲמָתִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Naamathite** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 5284 · **BDB:** נַעֲמָתִי

### Glosses

Naamathite (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Naamathite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5284/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5284/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. (from unused n.pr.);—צוֹפַר הַנּ׳ Jb 2:11 (𝔊 ὁ Μειναίων Βασιλεύς), 11:1; 20:1; 42:9 (all 𝔊 ὁ Μειναῖος); HomAufsätze 48 proposes מְעוּנִי.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נַעֲמָתִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5284/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 11:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַֽנַּעֲמָתִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Zophar the Naamathite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

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[Job 20:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.1/)

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וַ֭יַּעַן צֹפַ֥ר הַנַּֽעֲמָתִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Zophar the Naamathite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

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