Naamah

Region

Location disputed

Where Scholars Place It

  • Sheba Possible
  • Jebel el Na‘ameh Possible
  • Buseira Less likely

Naamathite in the Bible Dictionary · Another Naamah (town · Joshua 15:41)

Named in 4 Verses

  • Job 2:11 Now 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 11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
  • Job 20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
  • Job 42:9 So 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.

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