Pleasantness
נֹ֫עַםStrong’s H5278noam (no-am)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Noam is the Hebrew word usually translated “kindness”, “favor” and “on kindness of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.”
Meaning
- Kindness, pleasantness, delightfulness, beauty, favourdelightfulness · symbolic name of one of two staves · pleasantness
How it's translated
- kindness 3
- favor 2
- on kindness of 1
- kindness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Psalms 2
- Zechariah 2
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 11:10In contextAnd I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
- Psalms 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
- Psalms 90:17And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
- Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
- Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
- Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Hebrew dictionary
נֹ֫עַם noam · pleasantness
1) kindness, pleasantness, delightfulness, beauty, favour 1a) delightfulness 1b) symbolic name of one of two staves 1c) pleasantness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pleasantness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLEASANTNESS, noun
plez'antness. State of being pleasant or agreeable; as the pleasantness of a situation.
- Cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; as the pleasantness of youth.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.