Encyclopedie , Jewish Encyclopedia, NAAMAH, Emil G. Hirsch M. Seligsohn, NAAMAH 1. Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22). According to Abba b. Kahana, Naamah was Noah's wife and was called "Naamah" (pleasant) because her conduct was pleasing to God. But the majority of the rabbis reject this statement, declaring that Naamah was an idolatrous woman who sang "pleasant" songs to idols (Gen. R. xxiii. 4).
John Gill , Exposition of the Entire Bible, , [0], gen 4:20, Naamah whose name signifies "pleasant", fair and beautiful; and is thought by some to be the Venus of the Heathens; the Arabic writers {Elmacinus, p. 8. apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. C. 8. p. 232} say she was a most beautiful woman, and found out colours and painting; and by others Minerva; and Josephus {Antiqu. l. 1. c. 2. sect. 2} says she excelled in the knowledge of divine things; and Minerva is by the Greeks called Nemanoum {Plutarch. de Jide}. The Jews say {Bereshit Rabba, sect. 23. fol. 20. 3. Jarchi in loc. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 1. 2} she was the wife of Noah; and some of them say {R. Elias Levita in Tishbi, fol. 19, 21} she was the wife of one Shimron, and the mother of the evil spirit Asmodeus, mentioned in Tobit, and of whom other demons were begotten: the Targuru of Jonathan adds, "she was the mistress of lamentation and songs;'' but our Bishop Cumberland {History of Sanchoniatho, p. 107} conjectures, that she was the wife of Ham, was with him in the ark, and after the flood was the means of leading him into idolatry: what led him to this conjecture was, that he observed in Plutarch, that the wife of Cronus, the same with Ham, is by some called Nemaus, which brought Naamah to his mind.