STRONGS H5282:
Abbreviations
† 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 Lane
1578], 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 Isaiah 17:10 (
φύτευμα ἄπιστον) perhaps =
Adonis-plantations, or gardens (on double plural see Ges
§ 124 q; 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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