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Lexicon :: Strong's H5291 - naʿărâ

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נַעֲרָה
Transliteration
naʿărâ
Pronunciation
nah-ar-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1389c

Strong’s Definitions

נַעֲרָה naʻărâh, nah-ar-aw'; feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):—damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x

The KJV translates Strong's H5291 in the following manner: damsel (34x), maiden (16x), maid (7x), young (4x), young woman (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x
The KJV translates Strong's H5291 in the following manner: damsel (34x), maiden (16x), maid (7x), young (4x), young woman (1x).

  1. girl, damsel, female servant

    1. girl, damsel, little girl

      1. of young woman, marriageable young woman, concubine, prostitute

    2. maid, female attendant, female servant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַעֲרָה naʻărâh, nah-ar-aw'; feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):—damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
STRONGS H5291: Abbreviations
† II. נַעֲרָה noun feminine girl, damsel; — absolute נ׳ Judges 19:3 + 22 times, also Qr Genesis 24:14 + 20 times Genesis, Deuteronomy (נַעֲרָה Kt in Pentateuch only Deuteronomy 22:19, see below); plural absolute נְעָרוֺת 1 Samuel 9:11 +, construct נַעֲרוֺת Esther 4:4; suffix נַעֲרוֺתָיו Ruth 2:22; Ruth 3:2, נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ Genesis 24:61; Exodus 2:5, etc.; —
1. girl, damsel; קְטַנָּה נ׳ little girl only 2 Kings 5:2, compare 2 Kings 5:4, perhaps = young daughters Job 40:29 [Job 41:5]; elsewhere = young woman 1 Samuel 9:11; especially as marriageable, Genesis 24:14, 16, 28, 55, 57; Genesis 34:3, 12 (all J), Deuteronomy 22:15 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:29; 1 Kings 1:3, 4; Esther 2:4, 7, 8, 9, 12 (twice in verse); Esther 2:13; specifically virgin בְּתוּלָה נ׳ Judges 21:12; Deuteronomy 22:23, 28; 1 Kings 1:2; Esther 2:2, 3(compare Deuteronomy 22:15b; Deuteronomy 22:20); מְאֹרָשָׂה נ׳ betrothed girl Deuteronomy 22:25, 27; young widow Ruth 2:6; Ruth 4:12; of a concubine Judges 19:3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, a prostitute Amos 2:7.
2. of female attendants, maids (always plural), Genesis 24:61 (J), Exodus 2:5 (E), 1 Samuel 25:42; Proverbs 9:3; Proverbs 27:27; Proverbs 31:15; Esther 2:9 (twice in verse); Esther 4:4, 16; gleaners Ruth 2:5, 8, 22, 23; Ruth 3:2. —
Note. נער Kt in Pentateuch as feminine (Qr נַעֲרָ֯) is probably not original; it is not found in Sam. Pentateuch, and feminine plural נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ occurs Genesis, Exodus; compare Ges§§ 2n, 17c.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:14; 24:14; 24:16; 24:28; 24:55; 24:57; 24:61; 24:61; 34:3; 34:12

Exodus

2:5; 2:5

Deuteronomy

22:15; 22:15; 22:16; 22:19; 22:19; 22:20; 22:20; 22:21; 22:23; 22:24; 22:25; 22:26; 22:27; 22:28; 22:29

Judges

19:3; 19:3; 19:4; 19:5; 19:6; 19:8; 19:9; 21:12

Ruth

2:5; 2:6; 2:8; 2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 3:2; 3:2; 4:12

1 Samuel

9:11; 9:11; 25:42

1 Kings

1:2; 1:3; 1:4

2 Kings

5:2; 5:4

Esther

2:2; 2:3; 2:4; 2:7; 2:8; 2:9; 2:9; 2:12; 2:13; 4:4; 4:4; 4:16

Job

41:5

Proverbs

9:3; 27:27; 31:15

Amos

2:7

H5291

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5291 matches the Hebrew נַעֲרָה (naʿărâ),
which occurs 76 times in 57 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 24:14–Est 2:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Yitzchak. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:61

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Rivka arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rivka, and went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Ya`akov, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Par`oh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the Zakenim of the city in the gate;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - and the young lady's father shall tell the Zakenim, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Yisra'el: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 - But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Yisra'el, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 - But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

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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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So they sat down, and ate and drink, both of them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that you may go home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - They found among the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gil`ad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Kana`an.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Then said Bo`az to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young lady is this?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Mo'avite lady who came back with Na`omi out of the country of Mo'av:

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then said Bo`az to Rut, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - Na`omi said to Rut her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So she kept fast by the maidens of Bo`az, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2 - Now isn't Bo`az our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - and let your house be like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Yehudah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11 - As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Avigayil hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Yisra'el, and found Avishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4 - The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - The Aram had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of Eretz-Yisra'el a little maiden; and she waited on Na`aman's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of Eretz-Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then said the king's servants who ministered to him, Let there be beautiful young virgins sought for the king:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, to the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. The thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - He brought up Hadassah, who is, Ester, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordekhai took her for his own daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 - So it happened, when the king's mitzvah and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Ester was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her things for her purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Achashverosh, after it had been done to her as prescribed for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13 - then in this wise came the maiden to the king: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.

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