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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
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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 1 / 5 (Gen 14:24–Jdg 19:3)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - I will accept only what my young warriors have already eaten, and I request that you give a fair share of the goods to my allies—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Then Abraham ran out to the herd and chose a tender calf and gave it to his servant, who quickly prepared it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God told Abraham, “Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “Hagar, what’s wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Go to him and comfort him, for I will make a great nation from his descendants.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened Hagar’s eyes, and she saw a well full of water. She quickly filled her water container and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then they returned to the servants and traveled back to Beersheba, where Abraham continued to live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - Shechem wasted no time in acting on this request, for he wanted Jacob’s daughter desperately. Shechem was a highly respected member of his family,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - There was a young Hebrew man with us in the prison who was a slave of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he told us what each of our dreams meant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Judah said to his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - But we said to you, ‘My lord, the boy cannot leave his father, for his father would die.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame forever.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause 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 harm—
may he bless these boys.
May they preserve my name
and the names of Abraham and Isaac.
And may their descendants multiply greatly
throughout the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew children,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - Moses replied, “We will all go—young and old, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds. We must all join together in celebrating a festival to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:5 - Then he sent some of the young Israelite men to present burnt offerings and to sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Inside the Tent of Meeting, the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Afterward Moses would return to the camp, but the young man who assisted him, Joshua son of Nun, would remain behind in the Tent of Meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was angry that Balaam was going, so he sent the angel of the LORD to stand in the road to block his way. As Balaam and two servants were riding along,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They completely destroyed everything in it with their swords—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - The men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - Listen to what the Midianites are saying, and you will be greatly encouraged. Then you will be eager to attack.”
So Gideon took Purah and went down to the edge of the enemy camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - There he captured a young man from Succoth and demanded that he write down the names of all the seventy-seven officials and elders in the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, “Kill them!” But Jether did not draw his sword, for he was only a boy and was afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - He quickly said to his young armor bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me! Don’t let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!” So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and his hair must never be cut. For he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. He will begin to rescue Israel from the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - But he told me, ‘You will become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink nor eat any forbidden food. For your son will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the moment of his birth until the day of his death.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, saying, “Lord, please let the man of God come back to us again and give us more instructions about this son who is to be born.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - So Manoah asked him, “When your words come true, what kind of rules should govern the boy’s life and work?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - When her son was born, she named him Samson. And the LORD blessed him as he grew up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the young servant who was leading him by the hand, “Place my hands against the pillars that hold up the temple. I want to rest against them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - The Levite agreed to this, and the young man became like one of Micah’s sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - While at Micah’s house, they recognized the young Levite’s accent, so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here, and what are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - Then the five men turned off the road and went over to Micah’s house, where the young Levite lived, and greeted him kindly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - her husband set out for Bethlehem to speak personally to her and persuade her to come back. He took with him a servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at[fn] her father’s house, her father saw him and welcomed him.

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