na.ar H5288

נַ֫עַר (na.ar) means “youth” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

נַ֫עַר Hebrew · H5288 239 tagged occurrences in 221 verses

Pronunciation guide: nah'-ar Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5288

נַ֫עַר · na.ar · youth

1) a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer 1a) boy, lad, youth 1b) servant, retainer

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H5287 (נָעַר); (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)

KJV glosses: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).

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How translators render H5288

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the boy	25
the servant	9
the young man	8
young men	8
his servant	7
young	7
the servants	5
the young men	5
a young man	4
of the boy	4
young man	4
and the boy	3
attendants	3
boy	3
his young men	3
of the young men	3
the boys	3
a servant	2
and his servant	2
and the young man	2
both young	2
but the boy	2
child	2
his servants	2
is the young man	2
is young	2
just a boy	2
my young men	2
of his servants	2
of the servants	2
of the young	2
only a child	2
so the young	2
the foreman	2
to his attendant	2
to his servant	2
when the young man	2
a boy	1
a boy and say	1
a child	1
a group of boys	1
a young	1
a youth	1
and a little child	1
and as the boy	1
and gave the boy	1
and my children	1
and my servants	1
and the servants	1
and the young officers	1
and the youth	1
and young man	1
are for the young men	1
boys	1
but a child	1
but a young man	1
but his young	1
but the young man	1
by his young servant	1
by the young officers	1
can a young man	1
even youths	1
for the young	1
for their children	1
from a child	1
he	1
her servant	1
him	1
if the boy	1
is a youth	1
let us have the young men	1
like that young man	1
meanwhile the boy	1
men	1
mere lads	1
my men	1
my servants	1
nor my servants	1
now a young	1
of a child	1
of my servants	1
of nabals	1
of the young man	1
of these young men	1
servant	1
servants	1
so he	1
so let my young men	1
so the boy	1
some of my servants	1
some young men	1
taking his servant	1
that a child	1
the boys safety	1
the little boy	1
the sons you have	1
the steward	1
the young	1
the young officers	1
the young people	1
the youth	1
their servants	1
these boys	1
though the boy	1
to her young men	1
to him	1
to the boy	1
to the young	1
to the young men	1
treat the young man	1
was a child	1
was still young	1
when the boy	1
when the boys	1
will dash young men	1
with our young	1
with your servant	1
young officers	1
young together	1
your young men	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and the child	7
of the young men	7
the child	7
the lad	7
a child	6
a young man	6
his servant	6
young	6
young men	6
and the young man	5
servants	5
the servant	5
the young man	5
the young men	5
child	4
children	4
for the child	4
to his servant	4
unto the young man	4
and his servant	3
and the lad	3
and the servant	3
of the child	3
of the young man	3
servant	3
unto his servant	3
young man	3
a youth	2
and the servants	2
and the young men	2
and young	2
for before the child	2
his young men	2
lad	2
of my servants	2
of the lad	2
of the servants	2
the servants	2
to the young man	2
unto his lad	2
unto his young men	2
unto the lad	2
unto the young men	2
a lad	1
all the young men	1
and all my servants	1
and behold the babe	1
and children	1
and for the young man	1
and i and the lad	1
and let the lad	1
and my servants	1
and the boys	1
and the children	1
and there was a young man	1
and when the lad	1
as soon as the lad	1
as the lad	1
because of the lad	1
behold the child	1
both young	1
but a child	1
but the lad	1
by my young men	1
by the young men	1
even a child	1
even the youths	1
for my sake with the young man	1
for the lad	1
for the young men	1
for this child	1
from the child	1
having his servant	1
him and his young man	1
himself upon him and the child	1
his servants	1
i have been young	1
if the young men	1
instead of the lad	1
is the young man	1
let the young men	1
men	1
my children	1
nevertheless a lad	1
nor my servants	1
not the young men	1
of a child	1
of his servants	1
of his young men	1
so the young man	1
so these young men	1
that a child	1
that the lad	1
the lads	1
the young	1
thee what shall become of the child	1
thee wherefore let the young men	1
their servants	1
them but the youth	1
there with us a young man	1
this youth	1
thy servant	1
thy young men	1
to a lad	1
to her servant	1
to the young	1
until the child	1
unto a young man	1
unto her servants	1
unto him and to his servant	1
unto the child	1
upon the young men	1
was with the lad	1
was young	1
wherewith the servants	1
wherewithal shall a young man	1
which the young men	1
while he was yet young	1
with his servant	1
with our young	1
with which the servants	1
yet a youth	1

Verses containing H5288

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Genesis 14:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”
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Genesis 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
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Genesis 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
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Genesis 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
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Genesis 21:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
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Genesis 21:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
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Genesis 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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Genesis 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
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Genesis 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
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Genesis 22:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
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Genesis 22:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
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Genesis 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
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Genesis 25:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
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Genesis 34:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
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Genesis 37:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
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Genesis 41:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
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Genesis 43:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
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Genesis 44:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
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Genesis 44:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
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Genesis 44:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
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Genesis 44:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
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Genesis 44:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
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Genesis 44:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
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Genesis 48:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
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Exodus 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
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Exodus 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
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Exodus 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
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Exodus 33:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
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Numbers 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
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Numbers 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
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Deuteronomy 28:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
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Joshua 6:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
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Joshua 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
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Judges 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah
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Judges 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.
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Judges 8:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There he captured a young man of Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.
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Judges 8:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword; he was fearful because he was still a youth.
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Judges 9:54 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
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Judges 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
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Judges 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
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Judges 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
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Judges 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”
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Judges 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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Judges 16:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
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Judges 17:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
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Judges 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.
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Judges 17:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
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Judges 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
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Judges 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
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Judges 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
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