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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 5 / 5 (Pro 23:13–Zec 2:4)

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Do not withhold discipline from a child H5288;

Though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

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The rod and a rebuke give wisdom,

But a child H5288 [fn]who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:16 - Woe to you, land whose king is a boy H5288, and whose princes [fn]feast in the morning.

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And I will make mere boys H5288 their leaders,

And [fn]mischievous children will rule over them,

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And the people will be oppressed,

Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;

The youth H5288 will assault the elder,

And the contemptible person will assault the one honored.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy H5288 knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy H5288 knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

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And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number

That a child H5288 could write them down.

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And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,

And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

And the calf and the young lion [fn]and the fattened steer will be together;

And a little boy H5288 will lead them.

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And their bows will [fn]mow down the young H5288 men H5288,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their eye pity [fn]children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young H5288 and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the [fn]shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - And Isaiah said to them, “This is what you shall say to your master: ‘This is what the LORD says: “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants H5288 of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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Though youths H5288 grow weary and tired,

And vigorous young men stumble badly,

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“No longer will there be [fn]in it an infant who lives only a few days,

Or an old person who does not [fn]live out his days;

For the youth H5288 will die at the age of a hundred,

And the [fn]one who does not reach the age of a hundred

Will be thought accursed.

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Then I said, “Oh, Lord [fn]GOD!

Behold, I do not know how to speak,

Because I am a youth H5288.”

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But the LORD said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am a youth H5288,’

Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,

And all that I command you, you shall speak.

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And with you I shatter man and woman,

And with you I shatter the old man and youth H5288,

And with you I shatter the young man and virgin,

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“On the ground in the streets

Lie young H5288 and old;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have put them to death on the day of Your anger,

You have slaughtered, without sparing.

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Young men [fn]worked at the grinding mill,

And youths H5288 staggered under loads of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:1 -

When Israel was a youth H5288 I loved him,

And out of Egypt I called My son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - And he said to him, “Run, speak to that young H5288 man H5288 there, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as open country because of the multitude of people and cattle within it.

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