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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 26 times in 25 verses in '2Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - Then 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - 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 had overtaken him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - Then David called one of the young H5288 men H5288 and said, “Come forward, [fn]put him to death.” So he struck him and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - Then Abner said to Joab, “Now have the young H5288 men H5288 arise and hold a martial skills match in our presence.” And Joab said, “Have them arise!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - So Abner said to him, “Turn aside for your own good to your right or to your left, and take hold of one of the young H5288 men H5288 for yourself, and take for yourself his equipment.” But Asahel was unwilling to turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12

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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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 -

Then the king summoned Saul’s servant H5288 Ziba and said to him, “Everything 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David therefore pleaded with God for the child H5288; and David fasted and went and lay all night on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 -

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - And the servants H5288 of Absalom did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons got up and each mounted his mule and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, [fn]responded, “Let my lord not [fn]assume that they have put to death all the young H5288 men H5288, the king’s sons, for only Amnon is dead; because this has been set up by the [fn]intent of Absalom since the day that he violated his sister Tamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 -

Now Absalom had 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 -

Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I [fn]will certainly do this thing; go then, bring back the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1

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Now when David had gone on a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant H5288 of Mephibosheth met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2

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, the bread and summer fruit are for the young H5288 men H5288 to eat, and the wine, for whoever is weary in the wilderness to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy H5288 did see them, and he told Absalom; so the two of them left 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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant 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 Box2Sa 20:11

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