Strong H5284נַעֲמָתִי
Naamathite
- Transliteration
- na‛ămâthîy
- Pronunciation
- nah-am-aw-thee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patrial from a place corresponding in nmae (but not identical) with H5279; a {Naamathite} or inhabitant of Naamah: - Naamathite
Detailed definition
Someone descended from Naamath(?), first mentioned at Job.2.11
In the biblical story
Naamathites
The people group of Zophar, Job's friend.
The Naamathites were the people group to which Zophar, one of Job's three friends, belonged.
In the Bible
Strong H5284 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- naamathite4
First verses
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
- Job 11:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Job 20:1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Job 42:9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.