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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 27 times in 12 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the girl’s H5291 father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s H5291 virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - “The girl’s H5291 father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he [fn]turned against her;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s H5291 father, because he [fn]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot [fn]divorce her all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 - “But if this [fn]charge is true, that the girl H5291 was not found a virgin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the girl H5291 to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her [fn]to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - “If there is a girl H5291 who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies 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 [fn]to death; the girl, H5291 because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 - “But if in the field the man finds the girl H5291 who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - “But you shall do nothing to the girl; H5291 there is no sin in the girl H5291 worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - “When he found her in the field, the engaged girl H5291 cried out, but there was no one to save her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - “If a man finds a girl H5291 who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

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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 girl’s H5291 father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
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