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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 24 times in 21 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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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 Box2Ki 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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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.”

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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.’”

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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.

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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?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17

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.

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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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:4

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

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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.
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