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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 27 times in 24 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - “[fn]I will take nothing except what the young H5288 men H5288 have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and [fn]choice calf and gave it to the servant, H5288 and he hurried to prepare it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young H5288 and old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, “[fn]Do not be distressed because of the lad H5288 and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac [fn]your descendants shall be named.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the lad H5288 crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the lad H5288 where he is.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - “Arise, lift up the lad, H5288 and hold him by [fn]the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the [fn]skin with water and gave the lad H5288 a drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the lad, H5288 and he grew; and he [fn]lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young H5288 men H5288 with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - Abraham said to his young H5288 men, H5288 “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad H5288 will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, H5288 and do nothing to him; for now I know that you [fn]fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young H5288 men, H5288 and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - When the boys H5288 grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a [fn]peaceful man, [fn]living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - The young H5288 man H5288 did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, H5288 along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - “Now a Hebrew youth H5288 was with us there, a servant of the captain of the bodyguard, and we related them to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each one he interpreted according to his own dream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the lad H5288 with me and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - “But we said to my lord, ‘The lad H5288 cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, [fn]his father would die.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad H5288 is not with us, since [fn]his life is bound up in the lad’s life,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - when he sees that the lad H5288 is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - “For your servant became surety for the lad H5288 to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then [fn]let me bear the blame before my father forever.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad H5288 a slave to my lord, and let the lad H5288 go up with his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - “For how shall I go up to my father if the lad H5288 is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would [fn]overtake my father?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads; H5288
And may my name [fn]live on in them,
And the [fn]names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
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