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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 3 / 5 (1Sa 25:5–2Ki 4:19)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - And David sent out ten young men, H5288 and David said unto the young men, H5288 Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:8 - Ask thy young men, H5288 and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men H5288 find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:9 - And when David's young men H5288 came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:12 - So David's young men H5288 turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:14 - But one of the young men H5288 told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - And she said unto her servants, H5288 Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men H5288 of my lord, whom thou didst send.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:27 - And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men H5288 that follow my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men H5288 come over and fetch it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man H5288 of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young H5288 men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - And David said unto the young man H5288 that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - And the young man H5288 that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said unto the young man H5288 that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - And David called one of the young men, H5288 and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men H5288 now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, H5288 and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - And David commanded his young men, H5288 and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, H5288 and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore besought God for the child; H5288 and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - Then he called his servant H5288 that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 - Now Absalom had commanded his servants, H5288 saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - And the servants H5288 of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men H5288 the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - But Absalom fled. And the young man H5288 that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man H5288 Absalom again.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant H5288 of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men H5288 to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - Nevertheless a lad H5288 saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, H5288 even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man H5288 Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15 - And ten young men H5288 that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - And the king said, Is the young man H5288 Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man H5288 Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man H5288 is.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant H5288 of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - And one of Joab's men H5288 stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: H5288 I know not how to go out or come in.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. H5288

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man H5288 that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. H5288

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child H5288 died;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:43 - And said to his servant, H5288 Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:3 - And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant H5288 there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men H5288 of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:15 - Then he numbered the young men H5288 of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - And the young men H5288 of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:19 - So these young men H5288 of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children H5288 out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:12 - And he said to Gehazi his servant, H5288 Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, H5288 Carry him to his mother.

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