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 3 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.

1 Samuel 25:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name
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1 Samuel 25:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
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1 Samuel 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
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1 Samuel 25:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.
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1 Samuel 25:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.
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1 Samuel 25:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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1 Samuel 25:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
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1 Samuel 25:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
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1 Samuel 26:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.
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1 Samuel 30:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
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1 Samuel 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
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2 Samuel 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
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2 Samuel 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
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2 Samuel 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
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2 Samuel 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.
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2 Samuel 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.
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2 Samuel 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abner told him, “Turn to your right or to your left, seize one of the young men, and take his equipment for yourself.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.
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2 Samuel 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
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2 Samuel 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
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2 Samuel 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
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2 Samuel 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
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2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
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2 Samuel 13:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
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2 Samuel 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
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2 Samuel 13:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
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2 Samuel 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
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2 Samuel 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
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2 Samuel 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
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2 Samuel 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
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2 Samuel 18:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” And all the people heard the king’s orders to each of the commanders regarding Absalom.
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2 Samuel 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
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2 Samuel 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.
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2 Samuel 18:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
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2 Samuel 18:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like that young man.”
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2 Samuel 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
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2 Samuel 20:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
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1 Kings 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
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1 Kings 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.
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1 Kings 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
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1 Kings 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
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1 Kings 14:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
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1 Kings 18:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
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1 Kings 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
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1 Kings 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“By whom?” Ahab asked. And the prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘By the young officers of the district governors.’” “Who will start the battle?” asked Ahab. “You will,” answered the prophet.
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1 Kings 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahab assembled the young officers of the district governors, and there were 232 men. And after them, he assembled the rest of the Israelite troops, 7,000 in all.
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1 Kings 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the young officers of the district governors marched out first. Now Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, who reported to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.”
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1 Kings 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, these young officers of the district governors marched out of the city, with the army behind them,
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2 Kings 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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2 Kings 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
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2 Kings 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
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