Naamah

Meaning: the beautiful

The name of two biblical women and one city…

  1. descendant of Cain and the daughter of Lamech and Zillah (Genesis 4: 22) and sister of Tubalcain.

  2. The daughter of the king of Ammon, one of the wives of Solomon, the only one who appears to have borne him a son, viz., Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:21, 31).

  3. A city in the plain of Judah (Joshua 15:41), supposed by some to be identified with Na'aneh, some 5 miles southeast of Makkedah.