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Lexicon :: Strong's H5288 - naʿar

Aa
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 1 / 5 (Gen 14:24–Jdg 19:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:34 - For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:5 - And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:22 - But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her father and mother and her brothers and all she had, and they got out all her family; and they took them outside the tents of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:11 - And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:5 - For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:7 - But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 - Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - And Micah gave the position to the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:3 - When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

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