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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
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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 - “[fn]I will take nothing except what the young H5288 men H5288 have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Abraham also ran to the herd and took a tender and [fn]choice calf and gave it to his young H5288 man H5288, and he hurried to prepare it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young H5288 to old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - So God said to Abraham, “[fn]Do not be distressed because of the boy H5288 and your maidservant; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice, for through Isaac your seed shall be named.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - Then God heard the voice of the boy H5288 crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy H5288 where he is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - “Arise, lift up the boy H5288, and hold him by [fn]the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy H5288 a drink.

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And God was with the boy H5288, and he grew; and he [fn]lived in the wilderness and was an archer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young H5288 men H5288 with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - And Abraham said to his young H5288 men H5288, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy H5288 go over there; and we will worship, and we will return to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - And He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy H5288, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you [fn]fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young H5288 men H5288, and they arose and walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 -

And the boys H5288 grew up; Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a [fn]peaceful man, [fn]living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - So the young H5288 man H5288 did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more honored than all the household of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth H5288, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - “Now there was with us a Hebrew youth H5288, a slave of the captain of the bodyguard, and we recounted them to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each one he interpreted according to his own dream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy H5288 with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - “And we said to my lord, ‘The boy H5288 cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, [fn]his father would die.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “So now, when I come to your servant my father, and the boy H5288 is not with us—[fn]and 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 - so it will be that when he sees that the boy H5288 is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - “For your servant became a guarantee for the boy H5288 to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, [fn]then I shall bear the sin before my father all my days.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy H5288 as a slave to my lord, and let the boy H5288 go up with his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - “For how shall I go up to my father if the boy H5288 is not with me, lest I see the evil that would [fn]overtake my father?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 -

The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,

Bless these boys H5288;

And may my name [fn]live on in them,

And the [fn]names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;

And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - Then she opened it and [fn]saw the child. And behold, the [fn]boy H5288 was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - And Moses said, “We shall go with our young H5288 and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for it is a feast of Yahweh for us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:5 - And he sent young H5288 men H5288 of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then [fn]Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young H5288 man H5288, would not depart from the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - So a young H5288 man H5288 ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was angry because he was going, so the angel of Yahweh took his stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young H5288 men H5288 were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young H5288.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young H5288 and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young H5288 men H5288 who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - “But if you are afraid to go down, then both you and Purah your young H5288 man H5288, go down to the camp,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened, that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his young H5288 man H5288 down to the [fn]outskirts of the armed men that were in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And he captured a youth H5288 from the men of Succoth and questioned him. So the youth wrote down for him the princes of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise, kill them.” But the youth H5288 did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he was still a youth H5288.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then he called quickly to the young H5288 man H5288, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and put me to death, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So [fn]the young H5288 man H5288 pierced him through, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - “For behold, you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy H5288 shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - “And he said to me, ‘Behold, you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son, so now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, and you shall not eat any unclean thing, for the boy H5288 shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 -

Then Manoah entreated Yahweh and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may instruct us what to do for the boy H5288 who is to be born.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - So Manoah said, “Now your words will come to pass. What shall be the judgment governing the boy H5288 and his work?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 -

Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child H5288 grew up, and Yahweh blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Then Samson said to the boy H5288 who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, that I may lean against them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

And there was a young H5288 man H5288 from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was willing to remain with the man, and the young H5288 man H5288 became to him like one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - So Micah [fn]ordained the Levite, and the young H5288 man H5288 became his priest and [fn]lived in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young H5288 man H5288, the Levite. So they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - Then they turned aside there and came to the house of the young H5288 man H5288, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband arose and went after her to speak to her heart in order to bring her back, and his young H5288 man H5288 was with him as well as a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father’s house, and the girl’s father saw him and was glad to meet him.

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