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Lexicon :: Strong's H5291 - naʿărâ

Aa
נַעֲרָה
Transliteration
naʿărâ
Pronunciation
nah-ar-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1389c

Strong’s Definitions

נַעֲרָה naʻărâh, nah-ar-aw'; feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):—damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x

The KJV translates Strong's H5291 in the following manner: damsel (34x), maiden (16x), maid (7x), young (4x), young woman (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x
The KJV translates Strong's H5291 in the following manner: damsel (34x), maiden (16x), maid (7x), young (4x), young woman (1x).

  1. girl, damsel, female servant

    1. girl, damsel, little girl

      1. of young woman, marriageable young woman, concubine, prostitute

    2. maid, female attendant, female servant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נַעֲרָה naʻărâh, nah-ar-aw'; feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):—damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
STRONGS H5291: Abbreviations
† II. נַעֲרָה noun feminine girl, damsel; — absolute נ׳ Judges 19:3 + 22 times, also Qr Genesis 24:14 + 20 times Genesis, Deuteronomy (נַעֲרָה Kt in Pentateuch only Deuteronomy 22:19, see below); plural absolute נְעָרוֺת 1 Samuel 9:11 +, construct נַעֲרוֺת Esther 4:4; suffix נַעֲרוֺתָיו Ruth 2:22; Ruth 3:2, נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ Genesis 24:61; Exodus 2:5, etc.; —
1. girl, damsel; קְטַנָּה נ׳ little girl only 2 Kings 5:2, compare 2 Kings 5:4, perhaps = young daughters Job 40:29 [Job 41:5]; elsewhere = young woman 1 Samuel 9:11; especially as marriageable, Genesis 24:14, 16, 28, 55, 57; Genesis 34:3, 12 (all J), Deuteronomy 22:15 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:29; 1 Kings 1:3, 4; Esther 2:4, 7, 8, 9, 12 (twice in verse); Esther 2:13; specifically virgin בְּתוּלָה נ׳ Judges 21:12; Deuteronomy 22:23, 28; 1 Kings 1:2; Esther 2:2, 3(compare Deuteronomy 22:15b; Deuteronomy 22:20); מְאֹרָשָׂה נ׳ betrothed girl Deuteronomy 22:25, 27; young widow Ruth 2:6; Ruth 4:12; of a concubine Judges 19:3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, a prostitute Amos 2:7.
2. of female attendants, maids (always plural), Genesis 24:61 (J), Exodus 2:5 (E), 1 Samuel 25:42; Proverbs 9:3; Proverbs 27:27; Proverbs 31:15; Esther 2:9 (twice in verse); Esther 4:4, 16; gleaners Ruth 2:5, 8, 22, 23; Ruth 3:2. —
Note. נער Kt in Pentateuch as feminine (Qr נַעֲרָ֯) is probably not original; it is not found in Sam. Pentateuch, and feminine plural נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ occurs Genesis, Exodus; compare Ges§§ 2n, 17c.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:14; 24:14; 24:16; 24:28; 24:55; 24:57; 24:61; 24:61; 34:3; 34:12

Exodus

2:5; 2:5

Deuteronomy

22:15; 22:15; 22:16; 22:19; 22:19; 22:20; 22:20; 22:21; 22:23; 22:24; 22:25; 22:26; 22:27; 22:28; 22:29

Judges

19:3; 19:3; 19:4; 19:5; 19:6; 19:8; 19:9; 21:12

Ruth

2:5; 2:6; 2:8; 2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 3:2; 3:2; 4:12

1 Samuel

9:11; 9:11; 25:42

1 Kings

1:2; 1:3; 1:4

2 Kings

5:2; 5:4

Esther

2:2; 2:3; 2:4; 2:7; 2:8; 2:9; 2:9; 2:12; 2:13; 4:4; 4:4; 4:16

Job

41:5

Proverbs

9:3; 27:27; 31:15

Amos

2:7

H5291

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5291 matches the Hebrew נַעֲרָה (naʿărâ),
which occurs 76 times in 57 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 24:14–Est 2:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 - But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 - But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

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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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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2 - And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11 - And when they were on the way up to the town, they saw some young girls going out to get water and said to them, Is the seer here?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4 - Now she was very beautiful; and she took care of the king, waiting on him at all times; but the king had no connection with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 - So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13 - And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

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