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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 - So 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 pursued him closely.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - And David called one of the young H5288 men H5288 and said, “Go, [fn]cut him down.” 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 let the young H5288 men H5288 arise and [fn]hold a contest before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - So Abner said to him, “[fn]Turn 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 spoil.” But Asahel was not willing 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king called Saul’s servant H5288 Ziba and said to him, “All 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 inquired of 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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 - Absalom commanded his servants, H5288 saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be [fn]valiant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, [fn]responded, “Do not let my lord [fn]suppose they have put to death all the young H5288 men, H5288 the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead; because by the [fn]intent of Absalom this has been determined 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 will surely do this thing; go therefore, bring back the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:1 - Now when David had passed a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant H5288 of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters 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 - The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young H5288 men H5288 to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a lad H5288 did see them and told Absalom; so the two of them departed 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 - The king charged Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king charged all the commanders concerning Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - The man said to Joab, “Even if I should 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 charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘[fn]Protect for me the young H5288 man H5288 Absalom!’

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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 - 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 tumult, 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, “Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young H5288 man!” H5288

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, with 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 there stood by him one of Joab’s young H5288 men, H5288 and said, “Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”
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