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

Page 2 of 5. 221 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Judges 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
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Judges 19:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”
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Judges 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
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Judges 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
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Ruth 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
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Ruth 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
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Ruth 2:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
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Ruth 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
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Ruth 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
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1 Samuel 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
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1 Samuel 1:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
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1 Samuel 1:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.
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1 Samuel 1:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
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1 Samuel 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
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1 Samuel 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
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1 Samuel 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
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1 Samuel 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.
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1 Samuel 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
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1 Samuel 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
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1 Samuel 2:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
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1 Samuel 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare, and visions were scarce.
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1 Samuel 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.
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1 Samuel 4:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
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1 Samuel 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”
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1 Samuel 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
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1 Samuel 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
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1 Samuel 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
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1 Samuel 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
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1 Samuel 9:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them into the hall, and seated them in the place of honor among those who were invited—about thirty in all.
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1 Samuel 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.
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1 Samuel 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”
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1 Samuel 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.
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1 Samuel 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
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1 Samuel 16:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
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1 Samuel 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”
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1 Samuel 17:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
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1 Samuel 17:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
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1 Samuel 17:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
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1 Samuel 17:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
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1 Samuel 20:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
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1 Samuel 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
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1 Samuel 20:36 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
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1 Samuel 20:37 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
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1 Samuel 20:38 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
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1 Samuel 20:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.
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1 Samuel 20:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
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1 Samuel 20:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
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1 Samuel 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
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Source alternate reference: 21.3
1 Samuel 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.5
1 Samuel 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
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Source alternate reference: 21.6

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