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Strong's #4998 - נָאָה
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- to be comely, be beautiful, be befitting
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- to be comely
- to be befitting
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1300) an (נא NA) AC: Plead CO: ? AB: ?
A) an (נא NA) AC: Plead CO: Raw AB: ?: A pleading for what is desired.
Nm) an (נא NA) - I. Raw:Meat that is not fit for consumption in the sense of refusal. II. Please:A pleading or request for something. KJV (10): raw, now, beseech, pray, oh, go - Strongs: H4994 (נָא), H4995 (נָא)
Nf1) ean (נאה NAH) - Pasture: As a place of beauty. [Unknown connection to root] KJV (12): habitation, pasture, house, place - Strongs: H4999 (נָוָה)
C) ana (אנא ANA) AC: Plead CO: ? AB: ?
Nm ) ana (אנא ANA) - Please: A pleading or request for something. KJV (13): beseech, pray, oh - Strongs: H577 (אָנָּה)
H) ean (נאה NAH) AC: ? CO: Pasture AB: Beauty: A place of beauty and comfort. In the sense of desire.
V) ean (נאה NAH) - Beauty: KJV (3): (vf: Pilpel) become, comely, beautiful - Strongs: H4998 (נָאָה)
dm) efan (נאוה NAWH) - Beauty: KJV (9): comely, seemly, becometh - Strongs: H5000 (נָאוֶה)
J) afn (נוא NWA) AC: Forbid CO: Forbid AB: Opposition: A refusal of a plea.
V) afn (נוא NWA) - Forbid: KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) dissalow, discourage, non effect, break - Strongs: H5106 (נוּא)
if1) eafnt (תנואה TNWAH) - Opposition: KJV (2): breach of promise, occasion - Strongs: H8569 (תְּנוּאָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Pi`lel be comely, befitting (Thes Ol§ 251a, 187 a Sta§ 416 b Ges§ 2. R. 4SS Bae Psalm 33:1 > AE Ki Hartm Plurilit.-bildungen (1875) 13ff. Nö ZMG xxx. 1876,185 Now Hup Psalm 31:1. 93,5 Buhl
Niph`al √ I. אוה desire, i.e. desirable, beautiful; Late Hebrew נאה Pi`el Hithpa`el; ᵑ7נוֺאִי beauty); —
Pi`lel Perfect נַאֲוָה Psalm 93:5 (so van d. H Ginsb; Masora Baer De on the passage נָָֽאֲוָה = נָאוָה see נָאוֶה
adjective, but see Sta§ 155. b. n); נָאווּ Isaiah 52:7; Song of Solomon 1:10 (on form compare Ges l.c.); —
1 be comely; of feet of messenger, (figurative) Isaiah 52:7; of cheeks Song of Solomon 1:10.
2 be befitting: קֹֿדֶשׁ׳לְבֵיתְךָ נ Psalm 93:5.
נָאָה not used in Kal, i.q. נָוָה to sit, to dwell. (Kindred is the Greek ναίω, ναός. The primitive meaning appears to me to be that of quiescence, see Habakkuk 2:5 Æyth. ነህየ፡ to respire, to rest, and it even approaches in meaning to נוּחַ.) Hence נָאָה plural constr. נְאוֹת habitations.
Pilel נַאֲוָה (compare שָׁחָה Hithpa. הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה), Psalms 93:5 plur. contr. נָאווּ (for נַאֲווּ.
(1) followed by לְ to be suitable for any one, to become any one; (prop. to sit well on any one; compare Plin. Paneg. x. quam bene humeris tuis sederet imperium, a metaphor taken from garments. So the German jemandem gut fißen was formerly used in the wider signification of being suitable, becoming, from which use is derived the noun Sitte; now it is said in German, es kleidet jemanden, fteht ihm wohl an. Some have taken נַאֲוָה as the Niph. of the verb אָוָה: to be desired; hence, to be agreeable, becoming). Psalms 93:5 לְבֵיתְךָ נַאֲוָה קֹדֶשׁ “holiness becometh thine house;” comp. adj. נָאוֶה.
(2) absol. to be becoming, i.e. handsome, agreeable, Song of Solomon 1:10 (2:14 4:3 ). [In Thes. these two passages are removed to נָאוֶה], Isaiah 52:7.
[Derivatives the two following words.]
נָאָה i.q. נָוֶה, נָוָה only in pl. constr. נְאוֹת.
(1) a word altogether poetic, a seat, dwelling
(a) of men, or God, as נְאוֹת יַעֲקֹב Lamentations 2:2 נְאוֹת חָמָס Vulg. domus iniquitatis, Psalms 74:20 נְאוֹת אֱלֹהִים Psalms 83:13.
(b) of flocks, pastures, where the flocks lie down, remain, and rest (see the root), Jeremiah 25:37; Amos 1:2, נְאוֹת מִדְבָּר the pastures of the desert, Psalms 65:13; Jeremiah 9:9 נְאוֹת דֶּשֶׁא green pastures, Psalms 23:2.
