Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5278
נֹעַם
noamno'-am
pleasantness
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nôʻam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5278is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5278
agreeableness, i.e. delight, suitableness, splendor or grace
The King James renders it: beauty, pleasant(-ness).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
noam is rendered "pleasantness". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
Psalms 27:4בְּנֹֽעַם־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- kindness3
- Favor2
- kindness of1
- on kindness of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נֹעַר | noar | youth | Uses4 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נֹ֑עַם2
- בְּנֹֽעַם־1
- נֹ֤עַם1
- נֹ֙עַם֙1
- נֹ֔עַם1
- נֹֽעַם׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Psalms
two uses
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- בְּנֹֽעַם־benoam-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on kindness of
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!
- נֹ֤עַםnoamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: kindness of
Proverbs
three uses
All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
- נֹ֑עַםnoamnoun · masculine singulartagged: kindness
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
- נֹֽעַם׃noamnoun · masculine singulartagged: kindness
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
- נֹ֑עַםnoamnoun · masculine singulartagged: kindness
Zechariah
two uses
So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
- נֹ֙עַם֙noamnoun · masculine singulartagged: Favor
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
- נֹ֔עַםnoamnoun · masculine singulartagged: Favor
The letters
Gematria 160· 720 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.