Naamah
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Naamah,Na'amah, Naama, or Na'ama (Hebrew: נעמה, meaning pleasant) may refer to:
- Naamah, the daughter of Lamech, the 5th descendant of Cain. Sister of Tubal Cain. (Genesis 4:22).
- Naamah, a woman identified in the Midrash Genesis Rabbah as the wife of Noah, who is not named in the Tanakh. However, the 17th century theologian John Gill identified Naamah as the name of the wife of Ham, son of Noah, whom he believed may have become confused with Noah's wife. The wife of Noah is identified in the Book of Jubilees as Emzara. See Wives aboard the Ark.
- Naamah, a city of Canaan, listed in the Book of Joshua (at 15:41), as having been conquered and subsequently settled by the Tribe of Judah. The city may possibly have been a tributary of the Canaanite royal city of Makkedah.
- Naamah, an Ammonite wife of King Solomon, and mother of his heir, Rehoboam, according to both 1 Kings 14:21, 31, and 2 Chronicles 12:13. She is the only one of Solomon's wives to be mentioned, within the Tanakh, as having borne a child.
- Naamah, an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the demon Samael in Zoharistic Qabalah. She is the mother of divination. This Naamah is generally regarded as being the daughter of Lamech; how she became a demon is unclear. In Gnostic Kabbalah, she is called Nahemah.
- Naamah, one of the Companions of Elua in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy saga.
- Naaman is the masculine version of the name; a Syrian army commander by this name appears in the Book of Kings.
