Named explicitly in 1 Kings 14:21 and 31, and 2 Chronicles 12:13, as 'Naamah the Ammonitess', mother of King Rechavam — one of the few queen mothers of the divided-kingdom era whose name and origin scripture records
Counted among Shlomo's many foreign wives (1 Kings 11:1, which lists Ammonite women generally though it does not name her there specifically)
“Naamah the Ammonitess — named mother of King Rechavam”
Traditional note: DISAMBIGUATION: This Naamah ('Naamah the Ammonitess', 1 Kings 14:21, 31, 2 Chronicles 12:13), wife of Shlomo and mother of Rechavam, is a different person from the Naamah of Genesis 4:22 (sister of Tuval-Kayin, in the line of Kayin/Cain — far outside the scope and timeframe of this dataset), about whom later rabbinic tradition (e.g. some midrashim identifying her as Noach's wife) makes additional claims that are 'Tradition', not Primary. This entry's Naamah, by contrast, is named directly and repeatedly in Kings and Chronicles as Primary text; her gentile (Ammonite) origin is explicit in the text itself, unlike the more ambiguous case of Tamar (see the note on 'tamar-eshet-yehudah').
