BDB5263 [H5282]

I. [נַעֲמָן] noun [masculine] usually pleasantness (so Thes amoenitas), but perhaps epithet of Adonis (so Mo^{Phoen. i. 227} Lag^{Symm. i. 468; Semit. i. 32} who compare red flower called [see Lane¹⁵⁷⁸], i.e. wound of Adonis, whence ἀνεμώη; compare Ew ^{Proph. i. 364} RS^{Proph. vi. n. 10 and} see Lewy^{Fremdwörter, 49}); — only plural נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים Isa 17:10 (ᵐ5 φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps = Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double plural see Ges^{«GKC:124q»§ 124q}; and on Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι see Rochette^{Rev. Archéol. viii. 1851, 105-123} Daremberg et Saglio^{Dict. des Antiquités (1877), i. 73, and references} WSmith^{Dict. Antiq.} (3) i. 25 Fl in Levy^{NHWB iv. 229}).

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