נָאוֶהnâʼveh

comely, seemly

Pronunciation: naw-veh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5000

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 33:1 Let the godly sing for joy to the Lord; it is fitting for the pure to praise him.
  • Psalms 147:1 Praise the Lord! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!
  • Proverbs 17:7 Eloquent words are not fitting for a fool; even less are lies fitting for a ruler.
  • Proverbs 19:10 It isn’t right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave to rule over princes!
  • Proverbs 26:1 Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.
  • Song of Solomon 1:5 I am dark but beautiful, O women of Jerusalem— dark as the tents of Kedar, dark as the curtains of Solomon’s tents.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).