Lexical Definition

‎נָעֵם‎ nâʻêm (naw-ame') be pleasant ^H:V
a primitive root

pass in beauty, be delight, be pleasant, be sweet.

• to be agreeable (literally or figuratively)

1) (Qal) to be pleasant, be beautiful, be sweet, be delightful, be lovely

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎נָעֵם‎] verb be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Phoenician ‎נעם‎ good Lzb³²⁴ (and many proper names); Arabic be plentiful, easy, pleasant; shew gracious favour toward, often in Qoran; Sabean ‎נעם‎ be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-Os^{ZMG xix (1865), 178} CIS^{iv. 19, 11}; so Minaean Hom^{Südar. Chrest. 128}; Old Aramaic in proper name Lzb^{222, 324} Cook⁸² (‎נעמתי‎ my darling [or my songs, compare II. ‎׳‎‎נ‎]); ᵑ7 ‎נָעִים‎ pleasant, lovely, ‎נְעִימְתָּא‎ loveliness; Prä^{Bas i. 46 f.} compare Ethiopic be pleasant, = ); —

Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular ‎נָעֵ֑מָה‎ Gen 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 masculine singular (of delightful friend) ‎נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד‎ 2Sam 1:26, also (of physical beauty) ‎מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ‎ Ezek 32:19 2 feminine singular (id.) ‎מַהנָּֿעַמְתְּ‎ Song 7:7* how lovely art thou ! (|| ‎מַהיָּֿפִית‎); 3 plural, of pleasant words, ‎נָעֵ֑מוּ‎ Ps 141:6 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎׃יִנְעָ֑ם‎ ‎׳‎‎לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ‎ Prov 2:10 (of knowledge); ‎׳‎‎לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ‎ Prov 9:17 (|| ‎יִמְתָּ֑קוּ‎); ‎׳‎‎יִנ‎ Prov 24:25 is impersonal with ‎ל‎, to them...shall be delight.

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