Pleasantness Beauty

† נֹ֫עַם n.m. ψ 90:17 delightfulness, pleasantness (Ecclus נועם תירוש 32:6);—נ׳ abs. Zc 11:7 + 4 times; cstr. ψ 27:4; 90:17;— 1. delightfulness of י׳: contemplated in temple ψ 27:4, shewn in his favour, וִיהִי נ׳ אדני … עָלֵינוּ 90:17. 2. name of one of two symbol. staves Zc 11:7, 10. 3. pleasantness, as defining genit.: דַּרְכֵי־נ׳ Pr 3:17; אִמְרֵי־נ׳ 15:26; 16:24.

† I. [נַעֲמָן] n.[m.] usually pleasantness (so Thes amoenitas), but perhaps epithet of Adonis (so MoPhoen. i. 227 LagSymm. i. 468; Semit. i. 32 who cp. red flower called شقاىٔق النعمان [v. Lane1578], i.e. wound of Adonis, whence ἀνεμώνη; cf. EwProph. i. 364 RSProph. vi. n. 10 and v. LewyFremdwörter, 49);—only pl. נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים Is 17:10 𝔊 φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps = Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double pl. v. Ges§ 124 q; and on Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι v. RochetteRev. Archéol. viii. 1851, 105–123 Daremberg et SaglioDict. des Antiquités (1877), i. 73, and reff. WSmithDict. Antiq. (3) i. 25 Fl in LevyNHWB iv. 229).