Naamah

Naamah, 1

Na´amah (pleasant), daughter of Lamech and Zillah, and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen 4:22).

Naamah, 2

Naamah, an Ammonitess, one of the wives of Solomon, and mother of Rehoboam (1Ki 14:21).

Na’amah. (loveliness).

1. 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 Zillah, and sister, as is expressly mentioned to Tubal-cain, Gen 4:22 only. (B.C. about 3550).

2. Mother of King Rehoboam. 1Ki 14:21; 1Ki 14:31; 2Ch 12:13. In each of these passages, she is distinguished by the title, "the (not ’an,’ as in Authorized Version), Ammonite." She was, therefore, one of the foreign women, whom Solomon took into his establishment. 1Ki 11:1. (B.C. 1015-975).

3. One of the towns of Judah, in the district of the lowland or Shefelah. Jos 15:41. Capt. Warren, in Report of Palestine Exploration Fund, 1871, locates it at Naameh, six miles northeast of Yebna.

("sweetness".)

1. Lamech’s daughter by Zillah (Gen 4:22). The refinement and luxury of Cain’s descendants appear in the names of their wives and daughters; as Naamah, Adah ("beauty"), Zillah ("shadow"). Naamah is associated with her brother Tubal-cain, the first worker in brass and iron.

2. The Ammonitess mother of Rehoboam (1Ki 14:21; 1Ki 14:31; 2Ch 12:13), one of Solomon’s "strange women" (1Ki 11:1). The Vat. Septuagint makes Naamah daughter of Ana or Hanun, son of Nahash; thus David’s war with Hanun terminated in a re-alliance, and Solomon’s marriage to Naamah would be about two years before David’s death, for Rehoboam the offspring of it was 41 on ascending the throne, and Solomon’s reign was 40 years.

3. A town in the "low hill country" of Judah (the shephelah): Jos 15:41.

[Na’amah]

1. Daughter of Lamech, a descendant of Cain. Gen 4:22.

2. An Ammonitess, wife of Solomon and mother of Rehoboam. 1Ki 14:21; 1Ki 14:31; 2Ch 12:13.

3. City in the lowlands of Judah. Jos 15:41. Identified with Naaneh, 31° 52’ N, 34° 52’ E.

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By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn

1. Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba b. Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife and was called "Naamah" (pleasant) because her conduct was pleasing to God. But the majority of the rabbis reject this statement, declaring that Naamah was an idolatrous woman who sang "pleasant" songs to idols (Gen. R. xxiii. 4).

2. An Ammonitess; one of Solomon's wives and mother of Rehoboam (I Kings xiv. 21, 31; II Chron. xii. 13). In the second Greek account (I Kings xii. 24) Naamah is said to have been the daughter of Hanun (Ἄνα), son of Nahash, a king of Ammon (II Sam. x. 1-4). Naamah is praised, in B. Ḳ. 38b, for her righteousness, on account of which Moses had previously been warned by God not to make war upon the Ammonites (comp. Deut. ii. 19), as Naamah was to descend from them.

3. A town of Judah, mentioned with Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Makkedah (Josh. xv. 41). It may be that Zophar the Naamathite (Job ii. 11) was a native of this town. Naamah is identified with the modern Na'nah, a small village six miles south of Lydda ("Memoirs of the Survey of W. Palestine," ii. 408).

NAAMAH.—1. Sister of Tubal-cain (Gen 4:22). 2. Mother of Rehoboam (1Ki 14:21; 1Ki 14:31, 2Ch 12:13). 3. A town of Judah in the Shephçlah (Jos 15:37-41). There is no notice of it elsewhere. Zophar the Naamathite is mentioned in Job (Job 2:11 etc.), but there is nothing to connect him with this town. Possibly we may identify Naamah with Naneh, a small mud village on low ground 6 miles south of Ludd (Lydda).

nā´-a-ma. (נעמה, na‛ămāh, “pleasant”; Νοεμά, Noemá):

(1) Daughter of Lamech and Zillah, and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen 4:22; compare Josephus, Ant., I, ii, 2).

(2) An Ammonitish woman whom Solomon married, and who became the mother of Rehoboam 1Ki 14:21; 2Ch 12:13. According to an addition in the Septuagint following 1Ki 12:24, “her name was Naaman, the daughter of Ana (Hanun) son of Nahash, king of the sons of Ammon” (see Benzinger, Konige, in loc.).