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נַעֲמִי

Naamites

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Naamites’ fuller range ↓

H5280 Strong's Hebrew
Naʻămîy Transliteration
/nah-am-ee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

נעמי (Naʻămîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Naamites.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Numbers, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its lone occurrence is Numbers 26:40. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Naamites
Modern gloss
Naamites
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H5280 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Numbers 26:40
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Numbers 26:40.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 1 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Naamites 1×
  • American Standard Version: Naamites 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Naamite 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Naamite 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5280 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Naamites” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5280 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Naamites” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5280 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Naamite” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5280 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Naamite” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Naamites = see Naamah " loveliness"
  2. the descendants of Naaman, the grandson of Benjamin

Word origin

נַעֲמִי adj.gent. from II. נַעֲמָן 1, Nu 26:40, rd. doubtless נעמני (so Sam.).

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from נעמן (Naʻămân) (H5283) — Naaman.

Part of speech: Adjective


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

נָעֳמִי

  • (b. h.) pr. n. f. Naomi, the mother-in-law of Ruth. B. Bath. 91ᵃ, v. חָזָה. Snh. 19ᵇ. Ruth R. to I, 2; a. e.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5280, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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