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Lexicon :: Strong's H5288 - naʿar

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נַעַר
Transliteration
naʿar
Pronunciation
nah'-ar
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1389a

Strong’s Definitions

נַעַר naʻar, nah'-ar; from H5287; (concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age):—babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 238x

The KJV translates Strong's H5288 in the following manner: young man (76x), servant (54x), child (44x), lad (33x), young (15x), children (7x), youth (6x), babe (1x), boys (1x), young (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 238x
The KJV translates Strong's H5288 in the following manner: young man (76x), servant (54x), child (44x), lad (33x), young (15x), children (7x), youth (6x), babe (1x), boys (1x), young (1x).

  1. a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer

    1. boy, lad, youth

    2. servant, retainer

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַעַר naʻar, nah'-ar; from H5287; (concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age):—babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
STRONGS H5288: Abbreviations
II. נַ֫עַר 239 noun masculine
1. boy, lad, youth.
2. retainer (not in P) (Late Hebrew as Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician נער Lzb324); — נ׳ absolute Genesis 37:2 +; construct 1 Samuel 2:13 +; suffix נַעֲרוֺ Judges 19:3 +, נַעֲרָהּ 2 Kings 4:24; plural נְעָרִים 1 Samuel 25:5 +, construct נַעֲרֵי Exodus 24:5 +; suffix נְעָרַי Nehemiah 4:10; Nehemiah 5:10, etc.; —
1. boy, lad, youth (approximately + 133 times)
a. of infant Exodus 2:6 (E; 3 months old), to be born Judges 13:5, 7, 8, 12, just born 1 Samuel 4:21, not weaned 1 Samuel 1:22; also Isaiah 8:4, compare Isaiah 7:16 +.
b. of lad just weaned 1 Samuel 1:24 (strike out 2nd נער, compare further Dr Bu HPS), 1 Samuel 1:25; 1 Samuel 1:27, etc.
c. = youth: of young Ishmael Genesis 21:12f. (E), Isaac Genesis 22:5, 12 (E), Joseph Genesis 37:2 (E; 17 years old), Benjamin Genesis 43:8; Genesis 44:22f. (J), sons of Samuel 1 Samuel 2:17, of Jesse 1 Samuel 16:11; קָטֹן נ׳ little lad 1 Samuel 20:35; 1 Kings 3:7; 2 Kings 5:14; Isaiah 11:6, קָטָן נ׳ 1 Kings 11:17, plural 2 Kings 2:23.
d. נ׳ with special stress on youthfulness Judges 8:20; 1 Samuel 17:33, 42; Hosea 11:1; Isaiah 3:4 compare Ecclesiastes 10:16; Isaiah 3:5; Isaiah 10:19; Jeremiah 1:6, 7; 1 Chronicles 22:5; 1 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 13:7; 34:3; so in phrase וְעַד זָקֵן מִנּ׳ Genesis 19:4 (J), Joshua 6:21 (J), Esther 3:13 compare Exodus 10:9 (E), Deuteronomy 28:50; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 65:20; Jeremiah 51:22; Lamentations 2:21; Psalm 37:25; Psalm 148:12; Proverbs 22:6.
e. of marriageable age Genesis 34:19 (J), warrior Absalom 2 Samuel 18:5, 12 +, Zadok 1 Chronicles 12:28, etc.
2. servant, retainer (approximately + 105 times):
a. = personal attendant, household servant, Numbers 22:22 (J), Judges 7:10; Judges 7:11; Judges 19:3; 1 Samuel 9:3f.; 2 Kings 4:12; 2 Kings 4:25 —
b. = retainer, follower Genesis 14:24; 1 Samuel 25:5f.; 2 Samuel 2:14f.; 1 Kings 20:14f.; 2 Kings 19:6 = Isaiah 37:6; Job 1:15, 16, 17; Nehemiah 4:10; Nehemiah 4:17 — Zechariah 11:16 is corrupt, compare We Now. —
Note. נער occurs in Pentateuch as Kt with Qr perpet. נַעֲרָה which see.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:24; 19:4; 21:12; 22:5; 22:12; 34:19; 37:2; 37:2; 43:8; 44:22

Exodus

2:6; 10:9; 24:5

Numbers

22:22

Deuteronomy

28:50

Joshua

6:21

Judges

7:10; 7:11; 8:20; 13:5; 13:7; 13:8; 13:12; 19:3; 19:3

1 Samuel

1:22; 1:24; 1:25; 1:27; 2:13; 2:17; 4:21; 9:3; 16:11; 17:33; 17:42; 20:35; 25:5; 25:5

2 Samuel

2:14; 18:5; 18:12

1 Kings

3:7; 11:17; 20:14

2 Kings

2:23; 4:12; 4:24; 4:25; 5:14; 19:6

1 Chronicles

12:28; 22:5; 29:1

2 Chronicles

13:7; 34:3

Nehemiah

4:10; 4:10; 4:17; 5:10

Esther

3:13

Job

1:15; 1:16; 1:17

Psalms

37:25; 148:12

Proverbs

22:6

Ecclesiastes

10:16

Isaiah

3:4; 3:5; 7:16; 8:4; 10:19; 11:6; 20:4; 37:6; 65:20

Jeremiah

1:6; 1:7; 51:22

Lamentations

2:21

Hosea

11:1

Zechariah

11:16

H5288

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Strong's Number H5288 matches the Hebrew נַעַר (naʿar),
which occurs 239 times in 221 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 14:24–Jdg 19:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, `Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Avraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - Avraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitzchak his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - Avraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Avraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Be'er-Sheva. Avraham lived at Be'er-Sheva.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - The boys grew. Esav was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Ya`akov was a quiet man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Ya`akov's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Yehudah said to Yisra'el, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to She'ol.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the eretz."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - Moshe said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:5 - He sent young men of the children of Yisra'el, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - The LORD spoke to Moshe face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Yehoshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - There ran a young man, and told Moshe, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - The young men the spies went in, and brought out Rachav, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - He caught a young man of the men of Sukkot, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Sukkot, and the Zakenim of it, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - He said to Yeter his firstborn, Up, and kill them. But the youth didn't draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. His young man thrust him through, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazir to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Yisra'el out of the hand of the Pelishtim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazir to God from the womb to the day of his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Then Manoach entreated the LORD, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - Manoach said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and how shall we do to him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - The woman bore a son, and named him Shimshon: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - and Shimshon said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - There was a young man out of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah, of the family of Yehudah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - Mikhah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his Kohen, and was in the house of Mikhah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were by the house of Mikhah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Mikhah, and asked him of his welfare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

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