NAAM
(pleasantness), one of the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh. (1 Chronicles 4:15) (B.C. about 1451-1420.)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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NAAMAH
one of the towns of Judah in the district of the lowland or Shefelah. (Joshua 15:41) Capt. Warren, in Report of Palestine Exploration Fund, 1871, locates it at Naameh, six miles...
NAAMAH
(loveliness).One of the four women whose names are preserved in the records of the world before the flood; all except Eve being Cainites. Site was daughter of Lamech by his wife...
NAAMAN
(pleasantness)."Naaman the Syrian." (Luke 4:27) Naaman was commander-in-chief of the army of Syria, and was nearest to the person of the king, Ben-hadad II., whom he accompanied...
NAAMATHITE
the Gentile name of one of Job’s friends, Zophar the Naamathite. (Job 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9) There is no other trace of this name in the Bible, and the town whence it is derive...
NAAMITES, THE
the family descended from Naaman, the grandson of Benjamin. (Numbers 28:40) only.
NAARAH
(a maiden), the second wife of Ashur; a descendant of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:5,6)
NAARAI
(handmaid), one of the valiant men of David’s armies. (1 Chronicles 11:37) In 1 Chron. he is called the son of Ezbai, but in (2 Samuel 23:35) he appears as "Paarai the Arbite." ...
NAARAN
(juvenile), a city of Ephraim, which in a very ancient record, (1 Chronicles 7:28) is mentioned as the eastern limit of the tribe. It is very probably identical with Naarath, or...
NAARATH
(juvenile) (the Hebrew is equivalent to Naarah, which is therefore the real form of the name), a place named (Joshua 16:7) only as one of the landmarks on the southern boundary ...
NAASHON
[NAHSHON, OR NAASHON]
NAASSON
(enchanter), the Greek form of the name NAHSHON, OR NAASHON. (Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:32) only.
NABAL
(fool) was a sheepmaster on the confines of Judea and the desert, in that part of the country which bore from its great conqueror the name of Caleb. (1 Samuel 25:3; 30:14) (B.C....
NABOTH
(fruits), the victim of Ahab and Jezebel, was the owner of a small vineyard at Jezreel, close to the royal palace of Shab. (1 Kings 21:1,2) (B.C. 897.) It thus became an object ...
NABUCHODONOSOR
[NEBUCHADNEZZAR, OR NEBUCHADREZZAR]
NACHONS
(prepared) threshing floor, the place at which the ark had arrived in its progress from Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem, when Uzzah lost his life in his too-hasty zeal for its safet...
NACHOR
[NAHOR]
NADAB
(liberal).The eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba. Exod 8 13 Numb 3:2. (B.C. 1490.) He, his father and brother, and seventy old men of Israel were led out from the midst of the ass...
NAGGAI
(illuminating), the true form of NAGGE, (Luke 3:25) and so given in the Revised Version.
NAGGE
one of the ancestors of Christ. (Luke 3:25) See [NAGGAI]
NAHALAL, OR NAHALAL
(pasture), one of the cities of Zebulun, given with its "suburbs" to the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:35) It is the same which in (Joshua 19:15) is inaccurately given in the Aut...
NAHALIEL
(torrents of God), one of the halting-places of Israel in the latter part of their progress to Canaan. (Numbers 21:19) It lay "beyond," that is, north of, the Amen, ver. (Number...
NAHALOL
[NAHALAL, OR NAHALAL]
NAHAM
(consolation), the brother of Modiah or Jehudiah, wife of Ezra. (1 Chronicles 4:19)
NAHAMAAI
(merciful), a chief man among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Jeshua. (Nehemiah 7:7) (B.C. 536.)
NAHARAI
(snorter) the armor-bearer of Joab, called NAHARI in the Authorized Version of (2 Samuel 23:37) He was a native of Beeroth. (1 Chronicles 11:39) (B.C. 1013.)
NAHARI
The same as NAHARAI. (2 Samuel 23:37) In the Authorized Version of 1611 the name is printed "Naharai the Berothite."