Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [נַעֲמָן] noun [masculine] usually pleasantness (so Thes amoenitas), but perhaps epithet of Adonis (so MoPhoen. i. 227 LagSymm. i. 468; Semit. i. 32 who compare red flower called [see Lane1578], i.e. wound of Adonis, whence ἀνεμώη; compare Ew Proph. i. 364 RSProph. vi. n. 10 and see LewyFremdwörter, 49); — only plural נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים Isaiah 17:10 (ᵐ5 φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps = Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double plural see Ges§ 124q; and on Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι see RochetteRev. Archéol. viii. 1851, 105-123 Daremberg et SaglioDict. des Antiquités (1877), i. 73, and references WSmithDict. Antiq. (3) i. 25 Fl in LevyNHWB iv. 229). Forms and Transliterations נַעֲמָנִ֔ים נעמנים na‘ămānîm na·‘ă·mā·nîm naamaNimLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |