נַעֲמָן
Naʻămân · nah-am-awn'
Naaman, the name of an Israelite and of a Damascene
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H5282 (נַעֲמָן);
Naaman, the name of an Israelite and of a Damascene
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Naaman.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
The seed, life continuing that works to see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נַעֲמָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and naaman6 · 38%
- naaman3 · 19%
- and of naaman1 · 6%
- now naaman1 · 6%
- naaman's1 · 6%
- so naaman1 · 6%
- but naaman1 · 6%
- and when naaman1 · 6%
- therefore of naaman1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.