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Lexicon :: Strong's H5271 - nāʿur

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נָעֻר
Transliteration
nāʿur
Pronunciation
naw-oor'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Properly, pass. participle from נַעַר (H5288) as denominative
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1389d,1389e

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: נער (Strongs) נערה (Strongs) נעורים (Gesenius) נעור (Strongs)

Strong’s Definitions

נָעוּר nâʻûwr, naw-oor'; or נָעֻר nâʻur; and (feminine) נְעֻרָה nᵉʻurâh; properly, passive participle from H5288 as denominative; (only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people):—childhood, youth.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x

The KJV translates Strong's H5271 in the following manner: youth (46x), childhood (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 47x
The KJV translates Strong's H5271 in the following manner: youth (46x), childhood (1x).

  1. youth, early life

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָעוּר nâʻûwr, naw-oor'; or נָעֻר nâʻur; and (feminine) נְעֻרָה nᵉʻurâh; properly, passive participle from H5288 as denominative; (only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people):—childhood, youth.
STRONGS H5271: Abbreviations
† נְעוּרִים noun [masculine] plural youth, early life; — absolute נ׳ Isaiah 54:6; Psalm 127:4; elsewhere suffix נְעֻרַי 1 Samuel 12:2, נְעוּרַי Job 31:18 +, נְעֻרֶיךָ 2 Samuel 19:8, נְעוּרֶיךָ Proverbs 5:18 +, נְעוּרַיִךְ Jeremiah 2:2 +, נְעוּרָ֑יְכִי Psalm 103:5, נְעוּרֵיהֶן Ezekiel 23:3, etc.; — youth, early life, especially in phrase מִנּ׳ from one's youth up Genesis 8:21 (J), 1 Samuel 17:33; 1 Kings 18:12; Jeremiah 3:24; Zechariah 13:5; Job 31:18 (extreme youth; || מִבֶּטֶן אִמִּי); figurative of Babylon Isaiah 47:12, 15, Moab Jeremiah 48:11, Judah Jeremiah 22:21 compare Psalm 71:5; Psalm 71:17; Psalm 129:1; Psalm 129:2; וְעַדעַֿתָּה מִנּ׳ Genesis 46:34 (J), 2 Samuel 19:8; Ezekiel 4:14; וְעַדהַֿיּוֺם הַזֶּה מִנּ׳ 1 Samuel 12:2; Jeremiah 3:25; as time in or during which Leviticus 22:13 (H), Numbers 30:4; Numbers 30:17 (P), Lamentations 3:27; Psalm 144:12, figurative of Judah and Samaria, personified, Ezekiel 23:2, 8; compare יְמֵי נ׳ (in figurative of Israel) Hosea 2:17 (|| יוֺם עֲלוֺתָהּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם), Ezekiel 16:22, 43, 60; Ezekiel 23:19; other phrase are: אַלּוּף נ׳ Jeremiah 3:4 friend of my youth, compare Proverbs 2:17, עֲוֺנוֺת נ׳ Job 13:26, חַטּאֹות נ׳ Psalm 25:7, חֶסֶד נ׳ Jeremiah 2:2, נ׳ חֶרְפַּת Jeremiah 31:19, זִמַּת נ׳ Ezekiel 23:21, שְׁדֵי נ׳ Ezekiel 23:21, בַּעַל נ׳ Joel 1:8, and especially אֵשֶׁת נ׳ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14, 15; Isaiah 54:6 (figurative); בְּנֵי נ׳ Psalm 127:4 sons of (a man's) youth; = youthful vigour Psalm 103:5.

[נְעוּרוֺת] noun [feminine] plural id.; — only מִנְּעֻרֹתֵיהֶם Jeremiah 32:30 (figurative of nation).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:21; 46:34

Leviticus

22:13

Numbers

30:4

1 Samuel

12:2; 12:2; 17:33

2 Samuel

19:8; 19:8

1 Kings

18:12

Job

13:26; 31:18; 31:18

Psalms

25:7; 71:5; 71:17; 103:5; 103:5; 127:4; 127:4; 129:1; 129:2; 144:12

Proverbs

2:17; 5:18; 5:18

Isaiah

47:12; 47:15; 54:6; 54:6

Jeremiah

2:2; 2:2; 3:4; 3:24; 3:25; 22:21; 31:19; 32:30; 48:11

Lamentations

3:27

Ezekiel

4:14; 16:22; 16:43; 16:60; 23:2; 23:3; 23:8; 23:19; 23:21; 23:21

Hosea

2:17

Joel

1:8

Zechariah

13:5

Malachi

2:14; 2:15

H5271

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5271 matches the Hebrew נָעֻר (nāʿur),
which occurs 47 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:34 - you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - “When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 - These are the regulations the LORD gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living at home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2 - Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if you don’t go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:12 - I don’t know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the LORD since my youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:26 - For you write down bitter things against me and make me reap the sins of my youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - but from my youth I reared them as a father would, and from my birth I guided the widow—

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:7 - Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, LORD, are good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:5 - For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:17 - Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 - who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:4 - Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:1 - A song of ascents. “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:2 - “they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:12 - Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:17 - who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - That is all they are to you— these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:21 - I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:19 - After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:30 - “The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger with what their hands have made, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:11 - “Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - “ ‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:60

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:60 - Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:15 - There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor[fn] a door of hope. There she will respond[fn] as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:5 - Each will say, ‘I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.[fn]’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:14 - You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:15 - Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[fn] So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
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