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Naamah or Na'amah (Template:Lang-he) is used as a female given name in contemporary Israel. Literally, it means "Pleasant One". It can also refer to:

Religion

  • Naamah (Genesis), the daughter of Lamech the Cainite. In some extra-Biblical traditions, a "Naamah" also appears as Noah's second wife, who is sometimes said to be a daughter of Enoch
  • Naamah (wife of Solomon), mother of Rehoboam
  • Naamah, a city of Canaan, listed in the Joshua 15:41, as having been conquered and subsequently settled by the Tribe of Judah.[1] The city may possibly have been a tributary of the Canaanite royal city of Makkedah
  • Naamah (demon), an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the archangel Samael in Zoharistic Kabbalah

Music

Literature

  • Naamah, one of the Companions of Elua in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy saga
  • Naamah is an antagonist in the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis (author)
  • The Naamah Darling is the name of Andan Cly's airship in the Clockwork Century books by Cherie Priest.

Gaming

  • Naamah is a Changeling girl in the roleplay game Changeling: the Lost, who appears as the Queen of Miami's Autumn Court
  • Naamah in the tabletop war game BattleTech, one of the Ascended Manei Domini, and commander of the 49th Shadow Division of the Word of Blake
  • Naamah the Soul Eater, boss of the Sanctum Of Destruction hero map on Grand Chase

References

  1. ^ "The Jewish Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2007-08-05.