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    Naaman

    NAY-uh-mun

    Meaning

    Pleasant; Delightful; Good

    Hebrew origin · Boy · First in 2 Kings

    What it points to

    Naaman — the mighty general brought low by leprosy — learned that God's healing comes through humility, not heroics. Seven dips in a muddy river accomplished what no army or treasure could.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable... he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.”

    2 Kings 5:1

    “Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”

    2 Kings 5:14

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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