From na'am; an oracle -- (hath) said, saith.
see HEBREW na'am
H5002. neum
נְאֻם376 noun masculine utterance (BaNB 82 e KöLgb ii. 501 > older explanation as Passive participle); — ׳נ always thus, as construct: —
1 utterance, declaration, revelation, of prophet in ecstatic state ׳נ בלעם Numbers 24:3, 15; ׳נ אֵל אִמְרֵי שֹׁמֵעַ 24:4; 24:6; ׳נ הַגֶּבֶר 24:3; 24:15; 2 Samuel 23:1; Proverbs 30:1; ׳נ דוד 2 Samuel 23:1; ׳נ מֶּשַׁע Psalm 36:2 (transgression personified, speaking with prophetic voice לִבּוֺ בְּקֶרֶב); elsewhere always
2 before divine names (except Jeremiah 23:31 see
verb): ׳נ יהוה utterance, declaration of ׳י (prophet citing divine word given through him), Genesis 22:16 (J), Numbers 14:28 (P), 2 Kings 9:26 (twice in verse); 19:33 = Isaiah 37:34; 2 Kings 22:19 2 Chronicles 34:27; Isaiah 14:22; 30:1; 31:9; Ezekiel 13:6-7, 16:58; 37:14; Hosea 2:15; 2:18; 2:23; 11:11; Joel 2:12; Obadiah 4, 8; Micah 4:6; 5:9; Zephaniah 1:2-3, 10; 3:8; Zechariah 8:17; 10:12; 11:6; 12:1, 4; 13:8; Malachi 1:2 + Isa212t.; Jeremiah 162 t.; Amos 14 t.; Haggai 5 t.; Zech1 (Zechariah 1-8) 6 t.; followed by ישׂראל אלהי 1 Samuel 2:30; Isaiah 17:6; (הַ)צְבָאוֺת ׳י אֱלֹהֵי Amos 6:8, 14; ׳נ ׳י צְבָאוֺת Isaiah 14:22-23, 17:3; 22:25; Jeremiah 8:3; 25:29; 30:8; 49:26; Nahum 2:14; Nahum 3:5; Zechariah 13:2, 7 + Haggai 5 t.; Zech1 (Zechariah 1-8) 7 t.; followed by ישׂראל אלהי Zephaniah 2:9; י ׳האדון ׳צ Isaiah 1:24; 19:4; י ׳אֲדֹנָי הַצּ ׳אֶלֹהֵי Amos 3:13; י ׳אדני ׳צ Isaiah 3:15; Jeremiah 49:5; י ׳הַמֶּלֶךְ ׳צ 46:18; 48:15; Jer 57:57; ׳נ יהוה אדני Isaiah 56:8; Jeremiah 2:22; Amos 4:5; 8:3, 9, 11 + Ezekiel 82 t. נְאֻם begins sentence only Isaiah 56:8; Psalm 110:1; often in middle Isaiah 49:18; Amos 3:10 +; most frequently at end Isaiah 54:17; Amos 2:11; 4:3 +; found in all prophets except Habakkuk, Jonah; not in H D of Hexateuch, Chronicles (except "" Kings), Daniel, Job or the five Megilloth.