נָעֵם

vb. be pleasant, delightful, lovely (Ph. נעם good Lzb324 (and many n.pr.); Arabic نَعِمَ be plentiful, easy, pleasant; أَنْعَمَ على shew gracious favour toward, often in Qor; Sab. נעם be lovely, agreeable, well Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 178 CISiv. 19, 11, so Min. HomSüdar. Chrest. 128; Old Aramaic in n.pr. Lzb222, 324 Cook82 (נעמתי my darling [or my songs, cf. II. נ׳]); 𝔗 נָעִים pleasant,lovely, נְעִימְתָּא loveliness; PräBAS i. 46 f. cp. Ethiopic አደመ: be pleasant, = አንዐመ: );— Pf. 3 fs. נָעֵ֑מָה Gn 49:15 (poem in J; of land); 2 ms. (of delightful friend) נָעַמְתָּ לִי מְאֹד 2 S 1:26, also (of physical beauty) מִמִּי נָעָ֑מְתָּ Ez 32:19; 2 fs. (id.) מַה־נָּעַמְתְּ Ct 7:7 how lovely art thou! (‖ מַה־יָּפִית); 3 pl., of pleasant words, נָעֵ֑מוּ ψ 141:6; Impf. 3 ms. יִנְעָ֑ם: לְנַפְשְׁךָ יִנ׳ Pr 2:10 (of knowledge); לֶחֶם סְתָרִים יִנ׳ 9:17 (‖ יִמְתָּ֑קוּ); יִנ׳ 24:25 is impers. c. ל, to them … shall be delight.