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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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - now may it be that the young H5291 woman H5291 to whom H834 I say H559, ‘Please H4994 let H5186 down H5186 your jar H3537 so that I may drink H8354,’ and [fn]who answers H559, ‘Drink H8354, and I will water H8248 your camels H1581 also H1571’—may she be the one whom You have appointed H3198 for Your servant H5650 Isaac H3327; and by this I will know H3045 that You have shown H6213 kindness H2617 to my master H113.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The young H5291 woman H5291 was very H3966 beautiful H2896, a virgin H1330; no H3808 man H376 had [fn]had H3045 relations H3045 with her. She went H3381 down H3381 to the spring H5869, filled H4390 her jar H3537, and came H5927 up H5927.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 -

Then the young H5291 woman H5291 ran H7323 and told H5046 her mother’s H517 household H1004 about these H428 things H1697.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother H251 and her mother H517 said H559, “Let the young H5291 woman H5291 stay H3427 with us a few days H3117, say H176 ten H6218; afterward H310 she may go H1980.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - And they said H559, “We will call H7121 the young H5291 woman H5291 and [fn]ask H7592 H6310 her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 -

Then Rebekah H7259 got H6965 up H6965 with her female H5291 attendants H5291, and they mounted H7392 the camels H1581 and followed H1980 H310 the man H376. So the servant H5650 took H3947 Rebekah H7259 and departed H1980.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - But [fn]he was deeply H1692 attracted H1692 to Dinah H1783 the daughter H1323 of Jacob H3290, and he loved H157 the girl H5291 and [fn]spoke H1696 tenderly H3820 to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - “Demand H7235 of me ever so H3966 much H7235 H3966 bridal H4119 payment H4119 and gift H4976, and I will give H5414 whatever you tell H559 me; but give H5414 me the girl H5291 [fn]in marriage H802.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 -

Now the daughter H1323 of Pharaoh H6547 came H3381 down H3381 to bathe H7364 at the Nile H2975, with her female H5291 attendants H5291 walking H1980 alongside H5921 H3027 the Nile H2975; and she saw H7200 the [fn]basket H8392 among H8432 the reeds H5488 and sent H7971 her slave H519 woman H519, and she brought H3947 it to her.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the girl’s H5291 father H1 and her mother H517 shall take H3947 and bring H3318 out H3318 the evidence H1331 of H1331 the girl’s H5291 virginity H1331 to the elders H2205 of the city H5892 at the gate H8179.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - “And the girl’s H5291 father H1 shall say H559 to the elders H2205, ‘I gave H5414 my daughter H1323 to this H2088 man H376 as a wife H802, but he [fn]turned H8130 against H8130 her;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine H6064 him a hundred H3967 shekels of silver H3701 and give H5414 it to the girl’s H5291 father H1, because H3588 he [fn]publicly H3318 defamed H8034 H7451 H3318 a virgin H1330 of Israel H3478. And she shall remain H1961 his wife H802; he is not allowed H3201 to [fn]divorce H7971 her all H3605 his days H3117.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 -

“But if H518 this H2088 [fn]charge H1697 is true H571, and they did not find H4672 the girl H5291 to have evidence H1331 of H1331 virginity H1331,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring H3318 the girl H5291 out H3318 to the doorway H6607 of her father’s H1 house H1004, and the men H376 of her city H5892 shall stone H5619 H68 her [fn]to death H4191, because H3588 she has committed H6213 a disgraceful H5039 sin H5039 in Israel H3478 by playing H2181 the H2181 prostitute H2181 in her father’s H1 house H1004; so you shall eliminate H1197 the evil H7451 from among H7130 you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 -

“If H3588 there is a girl H5291 who is a virgin H1330 [fn]betrothed H781 to a man H376, and another man H376 finds H4672 her in the city H5892 and sleeps H7901 with her,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - then you shall bring H3318 them both H8147 out H3318 to the gate H8179 of that city H5892 and you shall stone H5619 H68 them [fn]to death H4191: the girl H5291, because H5921 H1697 H834 she did not cry H6817 out H6817 for H6817 help H6817 though she was in the city H5892, and the man H376, because H5921 H1697 H834 he has violated H6031 his neighbor’s H7453 wife H802. So you shall eliminate H1197 the evil H7451 from among H7130 you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 -

“But if H518 the man H376 finds H4672 the girl H5291 who is betrothed H781 in the field H7704, and the man H376 seizes H2388 her and [fn]rapes H7901 her, then only H905 the man H376 who H834 [fn]raped H7901 her shall die H4191.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - “And you are not to do H6213 anything H1697 to the girl H5291; there H369 is H369 no H369 sin H2399 in the girl H5291 worthy of death H4194, for just H834 as H834 a man H376 rises H6965 against H5921 his neighbor H7453 and murders H7523 him, [fn]so H3651 is this H2088 case H1697.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:27 - “When H3588 he found H4672 her in the field H7704, the betrothed H781 girl H5291 [fn]cried H6817 out H6817, but there H369 was H369 no H369 one to save H3467 her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 -

“If H3588 a man H376 finds H4672 a girl H5291 who is a virgin H1330, who H834 is not betrothed H781, and he seizes H8610 her and has H7901 sexual H7901 relations H7901 with her, and they are discovered H4672,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - then the man H376 who had H7901 sexual H7901 relations H7901 with her shall give H5414 the girl’s H5291 father H1 fifty H2572 shekels of silver H3701, and she shall become H1961 his wife H802, because H8478 H834 he has violated H6031 her; he is not allowed H3201 to divorce H7971 her all H3605 his days H3117.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband H376 set H6965 out H6965 and went H1980 after H310 her to speak H1696 [fn]gently H3820 to her in order to bring H7725 her back H7725, [fn]taking with him his servant H5288 and a pair H6776 of donkeys H2543. And she brought H935 him into her father’s H1 house H1004, and when the girl’s H5291 father H1 saw H7200 him, he was H8055 glad H8055 to meet H7122 him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - His father-in-law H2859, the girl’s H5291 father H1, prevailed H2388 upon him, and he remained H3427 with him for three H7969 days H3117. So they ate H398 and drank H8354 and stayed H3885 there H8033.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - Now on the fourth H7243 day H3117 they got H7925 up H7925 early H7925 in the morning H1242, and he [fn]prepared H6965 to go H1980; but the girl’s H5291 father H1 said H559 to his son-in-law H2860, “Strengthen H5582 [fn]yourself H3820 with a piece H6595 of bread H3899, and afterward H310 you may go H1980.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So both H8147 of them sat H3427 down H3427 and ate H398 and drank H8354 together H3162; and the girl’s H5291 father H1 said H559 to the man H376, “Please H4994 [fn]be H2974 so kind H2974 as to spend H3885 the H3885 night H3885, and let your heart H3820 be H3190 cheerful H3190.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - Now on the fifth H2549 day H3117 he got H7925 up H7925 to go H1980 early H7925 in the morning H1242, but the girl’s H5291 father H1 said H559, “Please H4994 strengthen H5582 [fn]yourself H3824, and wait H4102 until H5704 [fn]late H5186 afternoon H5186 H3117”; so both H8147 of them ate H398.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man H376 got H6965 up H6965 to go H1980, along with his concubine H6370 and servant H5288, his father-in-law H2859, the girl’s H5291 father H1, said H559 to him, “Behold H2009 now H4994, the day H3117 has drawn H7503 [fn]to a close H6150; please H4994 spend H3885 the H3885 night H3885. Behold H2009, the day H3117 is [fn]coming H2583 to H2583 an H2583 end H2583; spend H3885 the H3885 night H3885 here H6311 so that your heart H3824 may be H3190 cheerful H3190. Then tomorrow H4279 you may arise H7925 early H7925 for your journey H1870 and go H1980 [fn]home H168.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found H4672 among H4480 the inhabitants H3427 of Jabesh-gilead H3003 H1568 four H702 hundred H3967 young H5291 virgins H1330 who H834 had not known H3045 a man H376 by [fn]sleeping H4904 with him; and they brought H935 them to the camp H4264 at Shiloh H7887, which H834 is in the land H776 of Canaan H3667.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Then Boaz H1162 said H559 to his servant H5288 who was H5324 [fn]in H5324 H5921 charge H5324 H5921 of the reapers H7114, “Whose H4310 young H5291 woman H5291 is this H2088?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the servant H5288 [fn]in H5324 H5921 charge H5324 H5921 of the reapers H7114 replied H6030, “She is the young H5291 Moabite H4125 woman H5291 who returned H7725 with Naomi H5281 from the land H7704 of Moab H4124.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 -

Then Boaz H1162 said H559 to Ruth H7327, “[fn]Listen H8085 carefully H3808, my daughter H1323. Do not go H1980 to glean H3950 in another H312 field H7704; furthermore H1571, do not go H5674 on H5674 from this H2088 one H2088, but join H1692 H5973 my young H5291 women H5291 here H3541.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - And Naomi H5281 said H559 to her daughter-in-law H3618 Ruth H7327, “It is good H2896, my daughter H1323, that you go H3318 out H3318 with his young H5291 women H5291, so that others do not assault H6293 you in another H312 field H7704.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So she stayed H1692 close H1692 by the young H5291 women H5291 of Boaz H1162 in order to glean H3950 until H5704 the end H3615 of the barley H8184 harvest H7105 and the wheat H2406 harvest H7105. And she lived H3427 with her mother-in-law H2545.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:2 - “Now H6258 then, is Boaz H1162 not our relative H4130, with whose H834 young H5291 women H5291 you were? Behold H2009, he is winnowing H2219 barley H8184 at the threshing H1637 floor H1637 tonight H3915.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - “Moreover, may your house H1004 be like the house H1004 of Perez H6557 whom H834 Tamar H8559 bore H3205 to Judah H3063, through H4480 the [fn]descendants H2233 whom H834 the LORD H3068 will give H5414 you by this H2088 young H5291 woman H5291.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:11 -

As they went H5927 up H5927 the slope H4608 to the city H5892, they found H4672 young H5291 women H5291 going H3318 out H3318 to draw H7579 water H4325, and they said H559 to them, “Is the seer H7203 here H2088?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Then Abigail H26 got H6965 up H6965 quickly H4116, and rode H7392 on a donkey H2543, with her five H2568 female H5291 attendants H5291 who [fn]accompanied H1980 H7272 her; and she followed H1980 H310 the messengers H4397 of David H1732 and became H1961 his wife H802.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - So his servants H5650 said H559 to him, “Have them search H1245 for a young H5291 virgin H1330 for my lord H113 the king H4428, and have her [fn]attend H5975 H6440 the king H4428 and become H1961 his nurse H5532; and have her lie H7901 on your chest H2436, so that my lord H113 the king H4428 may keep H2552 warm H2552.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So they searched H1245 for a beautiful H3303 girl H5291 throughout H3605 the territory H1366 of Israel H3478, and found H4672 Abishag H49 the Shunammite H7767, and brought H935 her to the king H4428.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4 - The girl H5291 was very H3966 beautiful H3303; and she became H1961 the king’s H4428 nurse H5532 and served H8334 him, but the king H4428 did not [fn]become H3045 intimate H3045 with her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - Now the Arameans H758 had gone H3318 out H3318 in bands H1416 and had taken H7617 captive H7617 a little H6996 girl H5291 from the land H776 of Israel H3478; and she [fn]waited H1961 on Naaman’s H5283 wife H802.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - And [fn]Naaman went H935 in H935 and told H5046 his master H113, saying H559, “The girl H5291 who H834 is from the land H776 of Israel H3478 spoke H1696 such H2088 and such H2088.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then the king’s H4428 attendants H5288, who served H8334 him, said H559, “Let beautiful H2896 H4758 young H5291 virgins H1330 be sought H1245 for the king H4428.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - “And may the king H4428 appoint H6485 overseers H6496 in all H3605 the provinces H4082 of his kingdom H4438, and have them [fn]bring H6908 every H3605 beautiful H2896 H4758 young H5291 virgin H1330 to the citadel H1002 of Susa H7800, to the harem H1004 H802, into the custody H3027 of Hegai H1896, the king’s H4428 eunuch H5631, who is in H8104 charge H8104 of H8104 the women H802; and let their cosmetics H8562 be given H5414 to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - “Then let the young H5291 woman H5291 who H834 pleases H3190 H5869 the king H4428 be H4427 queen H4427 in H8478 place H8478 of H8478 Vashti H2060.” And the [fn]suggestion H1697 pleased H3190 H5869 the king H4428, and he did H6213 accordingly H3651.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - He was the guardian H539 to Hadassah H1919, that is Esther H635, his uncle’s H1730 daughter H1323, for she had H369 no H369 father H1 or H369 mother H517. Now the young H5291 woman H5291 was beautiful H3303 of form H8389 and [fn]face H4758, and when her father H1 and her mother H517 died H4194, Mordecai H4782 took H3947 her as his own daughter H1323.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 -

So it came H1961 about H1961, when the command H1697 and decree H1881 of the king H4428 were heard H8085 and many H7227 young H5291 ladies H5291 were gathered H6908 to the citadel H1002 of Susa H7800 into the [fn]custody H3027 of Hegai H1896, that Esther H635 was taken H3947 to the king’s H4428 [fn]palace H1004 into the custody H3027 of Hegai H1896, who was in H8104 charge H8104 of H8104 the women H802.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - Now the young H5291 lady H5291 pleased H3190 H5869 him and found H5375 favor H2617 with him. So he quickly H926 provided H5414 her with her cosmetics H8562 and [fn]food H4490, gave H5414 her seven H7651 choice H7200 female H5291 attendants H5291 from the king’s H4428 palace H1004, and transferred H8132 her and her attendants H5291 to the best H2896 place in the harem H1004 H802.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 -

Now when the turn H8447 came H5060 for each H5291 young H5291 woman H5291 to go H935 in H935 to King H4428 Ahasuerus H325, after H4480 the end H7093 of her twelve H8147 H6240 months H2320 under the regulations H1881 for the women H802—for the days H3117 of their beauty H4795 treatment H4795 were completed H4390 as H3651 follows H3651: six H8337 months H2320 with oil H8081 of myrrh H4753 and six H8337 months H2320 with balsam H1314 oil H1314 and the cosmetics H8562 for women H802

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13 - the young H5291 woman H5291 would go H935 in H935 to the king H4428 in this H2088 way H2088: anything H3605 that she [fn]desired H559 was given H5414 her to [fn]take H935 with her from the harem H1004 H802 to the king’s H4428 palace H1004.

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