נְיַיח II, = h. נוֹחַ II, kind, gentle, pleasing. Targ. Y. Deut. XVII, 18.—נ׳ ל־ it is good (better) for. Koh. R. to X, 5 [read:] והוה נ׳ ליה דקבריתיה וכ׳ it would have been better for him that I should bury him than &c.; (Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᵈ bot. נוֹחַ היה ליה אילו הוה מיית). Koh. R. l. c. נ׳ הוה דייתרים וכ׳ it would have been better that his head were taken off than to do this; a. e.