naa · pasture, dwelling

What it means

naa (נָאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pasture, dwelling”.

Pasture, meadow: the place where the flock feeds and rests; also a quiet dwelling.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A meadow where the flock grazes and rests.
2. A place where someone lives or settles.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pastures ×11
• abodes ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Joel×3
• Amos×1

• Psalms 23:2

  In pastures of grass he makes me lie down; beside waters of rest he leads me.

• Psalms 65:12

  The pastures of the wilderness drip, and with jubilation the hills gird themselves.

• Psalms 74:20

  Look to the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of abodes of violence.

• Psalms 83:12

  who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of Elohim.”

• Jeremiah 9:10

  For the mountains I will take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lament, for they are burned, with no man passing through, and the sound of cattle is not heard; from the birds of the heavens to the beasts, they have fled, they are gone.

• Jeremiah 23:10

  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up; and their course is evil, and their might is not right.

• Jeremiah 25:37

  and the peaceful pastures are silenced before the burning anger of YHWH.

• Lamentations 2:2

  Adonai has swallowed up and has not pitied all the pastures of Jacob; he has torn down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

• Joel 1:19

  To you, YHWH, I cry, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.

• Joel 1:20

  Even the livestock of the field long for you, for the channels of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

• Joel 2:22

  Do not fear, livestock of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness have turned green; for the tree bears its fruit, fig tree and vine give their strength.

• Amos 1:2

  And he said, “YHWH roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem utters his voice; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel dries up.”