Naamah

The name Naamah belongs to three distinct entries in the UPDV record: a daughter of the Cainite line named beside the metalworker Tubal-cain in Genesis, an Ammonite queen mother whose name closes and reopens the Davidic regnal notices for Rehoboam and Abijam, and a town in the lowland inheritance of Judah listed beside Makkedah.

Sister of Tubal-cain in the Cainite Line

The first Naamah is named in the Cainite genealogy as a sister of the bronze-and-iron forger: "And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of bronze and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah" (Gen 4:22). She is named only — no act, no descendants, no occupation — and her notice closes the Lamech-Zillah branch immediately before the Genesis narrative turns to Lamech's song of vengeance.

Queen Mother of Rehoboam, the Ammonitess

The second Naamah belongs to the standard southern regnal-notice for Rehoboam son of Solomon. Her name appears in the queen-mother slot in three separate registrations:

The opening regnal formula in Kings places her at Rehoboam's accession alongside the age-at-accession, reign-length, and capital: "And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess" (1Ki 14:21). The same Ammonite-maternal identification reappears in the closing regnal-notice for Rehoboam, paired with the death-and-burial phrase and the succession of Abijam: "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead" (1Ki 14:31). The Chronicler preserves the same data points — strengthened-himself-in-Jerusalem, age-at-accession, length-of-reign, chosen-city, queen-mother — in his parallel notice: "So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess" (2Ch 12:13).

In each of the three registrations the qualifier is the same — "the Ammonitess" — fixing her foreign-Ammonite descent inside the Davidic-Judahite royal record.

City in the Lowland Inheritance of Judah

The third Naamah is a place-name in the sixteen-city lowland roster of Judah's allotment, listed between Beth-dagon and Makkedah: "and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages" (Jos 15:41). The roster names the town only — no further description, no later narrative references in the UPDV material gathered here — its place secured inside the tribe's allotted holdings beside the better-known Makkedah.