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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 Box1Sa 25:5 - So David sent ten young H5288 men H5288; and David said to the young H5288 men H5288, “Go up to Carmel, come to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:8 - ‘Ask your young H5288 men H5288, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young H5288 men H5288 find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a [fn]festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son, to David.’”

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Then David’s young H5288 men H5288 came and spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David’s name. Then they waited.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:12 - So David’s young H5288 men H5288 went back on their way and returned; and they came and told him according to all these words.

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But one of the young H5288 men H5288 told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to [fn]greet our master, and he rushed at them angrily.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - Then she said to her young H5288 men H5288, “Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - “Please do not let my lord [fn]pay attention to this [fn]vile man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. [fn]Nabal is his name, and wicked foolishness is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young H5288 men H5288 of my lord whom you sent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:27 - “So now let this [fn]gift which your servant-woman has brought to my lord be given to the young H5288 men H5288 who [fn]went about with my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - And David replied, “Behold the spear of the king! Now let one of the young H5288 men H5288 come over and take it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young H5288 man H5288 of Egypt, a slave of an Amalekite; and my master forsook me when I fell sick three days ago.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - Then David struck them down from the twilight [fn]until the evening of [fn]the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young H5288 men H5288 who rode on camels and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - So David said to the young H5288 man H5288 who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - And the young H5288 man H5288 who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and behold, Saul was leaning on his spear. And behold, the chariots and the horsemen pursued him closely.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said to the young H5288 man H5288 who told him, “Where are you from?” And he [fn]answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - And David called one of the young H5288 men H5288 and said, “Approach and fall upon him.” So he struck him and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - Then Abner said to Joab, “Now let the young H5288 men H5288 arise and [fn]hold a contest before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - So Abner said to him, “[fn]Turn to your right or to your left, and seize one of the young H5288 men H5288 for yourself, and take for yourself his spoil.” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - Then David commanded the young H5288 men H5288, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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Then the king called Saul’s young H5288 man H5288 Ziba and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s [fn]grandson.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore sought God about the boy H5288; and David fasted and went and spent the night lying on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - Then he called his young H5288 man H5288 who attended him and said, “Now cast this woman out of my presence, and lock the door behind her.”

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Then Absalom commanded his young H5288 men H5288, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be strong and be [fn]valiant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - Thus the young H5288 men H5288 of Absalom did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose and each mounted his mule and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - But Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered and said, “Do not let my lord [fn]suppose they have put to death all the young H5288 men H5288, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone has died; because by the [fn]intent of Absalom this has been set since the day that he violated his sister Tamar.

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Then Absalom fled. And the young H5288 man H5288 who was the watchman raised his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.

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Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing; go therefore, bring back the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom.”

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Now David had passed a little beyond the summit, and behold, Ziba the young H5288 man H5288 of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - And the king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young H5288 men H5288 to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy H5288 did see them and informed Absalom; so the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down [fn]into it.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - So the man said to Joab, “Even if I should receive one thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not send forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘[fn]Keep for me the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom!’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15 - And ten young H5288 men H5288 who carried Joab’s armor gathered around and struck Absalom and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - Then the king said, “Is there peace with the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom?” And Ahimaaz said, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I did not know what it was.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - Then the king said to the Cushite, “Is there peace with the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young H5288 man H5288!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - Now there were one thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the young H5288 man H5288 of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - Now there stood by him one of Joab’s young H5288 men H5288, and said, “Whoever delights in Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - “So now, O Yahweh my God, You have made Your slave king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child H5288; I do not know 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 [fn]to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy H5288.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. And Solomon saw that the young H5288 man H5288 was [fn]industrious and appointed him over all the load-bearers of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - “And take ten loaves with you, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy H5288.”

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Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and went away and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child H5288 died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:43 - And he said to his young H5288 man H5288, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back” seven times.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:3 - And he [fn]was afraid and arose and [fn]ran for his [fn]life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young H5288 man H5288 there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - And Ahab said, “By whom?” So he said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘By the young H5288 men H5288 of the rulers of the provinces.’” Then he said, “Who shall [fn]begin the battle?” And he said, “You.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:15 - Then he mustered the young H5288 men H5288 of the rulers of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, 7,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:17 - And the young H5288 men H5288 of the rulers of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.”

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So these went out from the city, the young H5288 men H5288 of the rulers of the provinces, and the military force which followed them.

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Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young boys H5288 came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:12 - Then he said to Gehazi his young H5288 man H5288, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said to his father, “My head, my head.” And he said to [fn]his young H5288 man H5288, “Carry him to his mother.”

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