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NAAMAH

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Biblical, Jewish

Other Scripts: נַעֲמָה (Hebrew)

Pronounced: NAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Hebrew)   [key]

Means "pleasant" in Hebrew. This name is borne in the Old Testament by both a daughter of Lamech and a wife of Solomon. Some later Jewish texts give Naamah as the name of Noah's wife, even though she is not named in the Old Testament.
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