Naamah (Genesis)

Naamah (Hebrew: נַעֲמָה – Naʿămā) is mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 4:22, as a descendant of Cain.

She is often conflated with or connected to Naamah of the Zohar, one of the first women to seduce the grigori and give birth to nephilim.

Gordon Wenham notes that the reason "she should be picked out for special mention remains obscure",[1] while R. R. Wilson suggests that the narrator simply wished to offer a balanced genealogy by noting that both of Lamech's wives had two children.

[2] The Naamah mentioned in the Bible is a Cainite, a descendant in the lineage of Cain (the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-cain).

However, a Sethite Naamah is named as the wife of Noah (see Rashi's commentary on Genesis 4:22), and a daughter of Enoch, Noah's great-grandfather, in the early Jewish midrash Genesis Rabba (23.3)[3] [4] Some Jewish traditions associate her with singing.