nomi · Naomi

What it means

nomi (נׇעֳמִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Naomi”.

Wife of Elimelech and mother-in-law of Ruth. The name means "pleasant" or "my delight."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ruth 1:2

  The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. They came into the fields of Moab and stayed there.

• Ruth 1:3

  Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died, and she and her two sons were left.

• Ruth 1:8

  And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each to the house of her mother. May YHWH do loyal love with you, as you have done with the dead and with me.

• Ruth 1:11

  But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb that they could become husbands for you?

• Ruth 1:19

  So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they came to Bethlehem, that the whole city was stirred because of them, and they said, “Is this Naomi?”

• Ruth 1:20

  She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has dealt very bitterly with me.

• Ruth 1:21

  I went away full, and empty YHWH has brought me back. Why do you call me Naomi, when YHWH has testified against me and Shaddai has done me harm?”

• Ruth 1:22

  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned from the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• Ruth 2:1

  Now Naomi had a relative of her husband, a man mighty and of worth, of the clan of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go, please, to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind the one in whose eyes I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Ruth 2:6

  The young man who was set over the reapers answered and said, “She is a Moabite young woman, the one who returned with Naomi from the field of Moab.

• Ruth 2:20

  And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by YHWH, who has not abandoned his loyal love with the living and with the dead.” And Naomi said to her, “The man is close to us; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

• Ruth 2:22

  And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not attack you in another field.”

• Ruth 3:1

  Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek for you a place of rest, where it may be well with you?

• Ruth 4:3

  He said to the kinsman-redeemer, “The plot of the field that belonged to our brother Elimelech Naomi is selling, the one who returned from the field of Moab.

• Ruth 4:5

  Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, you acquire it to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance.”

• Ruth 4:9

  Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:14

  Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be YHWH, who has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer today; and may his name be proclaimed in Israel.

• Ruth 4:16

  Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and was the one who reared him.

• Ruth 4:17

  And the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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