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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 23 times in 21 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - “But if you are afraid to go down, then both you and Purah your young H5288 man H5288, go down to the camp,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened, that you may go down against the camp.” So he went with Purah his young H5288 man H5288 down to the [fn]outskirts of the armed men that were in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And he captured a youth H5288 from the men of Succoth and questioned him. So the youth wrote down for him the princes of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise, kill them.” But the youth H5288 did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he was still a youth H5288.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then he called quickly to the young H5288 man H5288, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and put me to death, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So [fn]the young H5288 man H5288 pierced him through, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - “For behold, you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy H5288 shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - “And he said to me, ‘Behold, you [fn]shall be with child and give birth to a son, so now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, and you shall not eat any unclean thing, for the boy H5288 shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 -

Then Manoah entreated Yahweh and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may instruct us what to do for the boy H5288 who is to be born.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - So Manoah said, “Now your words will come to pass. What shall be the judgment governing the boy H5288 and his work?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 -

Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child H5288 grew up, and Yahweh blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Then Samson said to the boy H5288 who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, that I may lean against them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

And there was a young H5288 man H5288 from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was willing to remain with the man, and the young H5288 man H5288 became to him like one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - So Micah [fn]ordained the Levite, and the young H5288 man H5288 became his priest and [fn]lived in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young H5288 man H5288, the Levite. So they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - Then they turned aside there and came to the house of the young H5288 man H5288, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband arose and went after her to speak to her heart in order to bring her back, and his young H5288 man H5288 was with him as well as a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father’s house, and the girl’s father saw him and was glad to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then the man arose to go along with his concubine and young H5288 man H5288, and his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold now, the day has drawn [fn]to a close; please spend the night. Behold, the day is [fn]coming to an end; spend the night here that your heart may be merry. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey so that you may go to your tent.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - They were alongside of Jebus, and the day was almost gone. And the young H5288 man H5288 said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:13 - Then he said to his young H5288 man H5288, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - “Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, [fn]your maidservant, and the young H5288 man H5288 who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”
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