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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.
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
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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5288 matches the Hebrew נַעַר (naʿar),
which occurs 239 times in 221 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 5 (2Ki 4:22–Pro 22:15)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - And she called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the young H5288 men H5288 and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - Then she saddled a donkey and said to her young H5288 man H5288, “Drive and go; do not hold back the pace of the ride for me unless I tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel.

Now it happened that when the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his young H5288 man H5288, “Behold, [fn]there is the Shunammite.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 -

Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not [fn]greet him, and if anyone [fn]greets you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the boy’s H5288 face.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:30 - But the mother of the boy H5288 said, “As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” And he arose and followed her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:31 - Now Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the boy’s H5288 face, but there was no sound or [fn]response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy H5288 has not awakened.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:32 -

Then Elisha came into the house, and behold, the boy H5288 was dead and laid on his bed.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:35 - Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the boy H5288 sneezed seven times and the boy H5288 opened his eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 -

Now Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. [fn]As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his young H5288 man H5288, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy H5288 and he was clean.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 -

Then Gehazi, the young H5288 man H5288 of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, [fn]by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young H5288 men H5288 of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - Then Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his young H5288 men H5288; and they carried them before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 -

Then the attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and behold, a military force with horses and chariots was all around the city. And his young H5288 man H5288 said to him, “Alas, my master! [fn]What shall we do?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And Yahweh opened the eyes of the young H5288 man H5288 and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - Now the king was speaking with Gehazi, the young H5288 man H5288 of the man of God, saying, “Please recount to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:4 -

So the young H5288 man H5288—the young H5288 man H5288 of the prophet—went to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young H5288 men H5288 of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:28 -

also Zadok, a young H5288 man H5288 mighty of valor, and of his father’s house 22 commanders.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - And David said, “My son Solomon is young H5288 and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh shall be highly exalted, for a name and beauty throughout all lands. Therefore now I will make preparation for it.” So David made ample preparations before his death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 -

Then King David said to the entire assembly, “My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is still young H5288 and inexperienced and the work is great; for the [fn]temple is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:7 - and worthless men gathered about him, vile men, who proved too strong for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon; [fn]he was young H5288 and timid and could not exert his strength before them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - Now in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth H5288, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the graven images, and the molten images.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:16 - And it happened that from that day on, half of my young H5288 men H5288 carried on the work while half of them took hold of the spears, the shields, the bows, and the breastplates; and the commanders were behind the whole house of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22 - At that time I also said to the people, “Let each man with his young H5288 man H5288 spend the night within Jerusalem so that they may be a guard for us by night and a worker by day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:23 - So neither I, my brothers, my young H5288 men H5288, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us removed our clothes, each took his weapon even to the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - “And likewise I, my brothers, and my young H5288 men H5288 are lending them money and grain. Please, let us forsake this usury.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors who were before me [fn]laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty [fn]shekels of silver; even their young H5288 men H5288 exerted their power over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - I also took hold of the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my young H5288 men H5288 were gathered there for the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:5 - Then Sanballat sent his young H5288 man H5288 to me in the same manner a fifth time with an open letter in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 -

Now it happened that just as it grew dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I said the word, and the doors were shut. Then I said that they should not open them until after the sabbath. Then I had some of my young H5288 men H5288 stand at the gates so that no load would enter on the sabbath day.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then the young H5288 men H5288 of the king, who attended to him, said, “Let young virgins, beautiful in appearance, be sought for the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by the hand of couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill, and to cause all the Jews to perish, both young H5288 and old, little ones and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - And the king said, “What honor or greatness has been done to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s young H5288 men H5288 who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - And the king’s young H5288 men H5288 said to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - and [fn]the Sabeans fell upon them and took them. They also struck down the young H5288 men H5288 with the edge of the sword, and [fn]I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While this one was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the young H5288 men H5288 and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While this one was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans set up three companies and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the young H5288 men H5288 with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and touched the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young H5288 people H5288, and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 -

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness

They go forth seeking food earnestly in their work,

The desert becomes [fn]for him a place of bread for his young H5288 ones H5288.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:5 -

When [fn]the Almighty was yet with me,

And my children H5288 were around me,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 -

The young H5288 men H5288 saw me and hid,

And the old men arose and stood.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:25 -

Nun

I was young H5288 and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken

Or his seed begging bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:9 -

Beth

How can a young H5288 man H5288 keep his way pure?

By keeping it according to Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 -

Both choice men as well as virgins;

The old with the young H5288.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 -

To give prudence to the [fn]simple,

To the youth H5288 knowledge and discretion;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:7 -

And I saw among the simple,

And discerned among the [fn]sons

A young H5288 man H5288 lacking a heart of wisdom,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:11 -

It is by his deeds that a young H5288 man H5288 makes himself known

If his conduct is pure and right.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:6 -

[fn]Train up a child H5288 [fn]according to his way,

Even when he is old he will not [fn]depart from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 -

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child H5288;

The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.


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