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 4 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.

2 Kings 4:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
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2 Kings 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
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2 Kings 4:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
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2 Kings 4:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
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2 Kings 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
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2 Kings 4:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
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2 Kings 4:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
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2 Kings 4:35 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
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2 Kings 4:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
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2 Kings 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
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2 Kings 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
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2 Kings 5:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
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2 Kings 5:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
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2 Kings 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, behold, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
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2 Kings 6:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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2 Kings 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
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2 Kings 9:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead,
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2 Kings 19:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
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1 Chronicles 12:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.
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Source alternate reference: 12.29
1 Chronicles 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.
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1 Chronicles 29:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
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2 Chronicles 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.
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2 Chronicles 34:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
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Nehemiah 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah
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Source alternate reference: 4.10
Nehemiah 4:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time I also said to the people, “Let every man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they can stand guard by night and work by day.”
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Source alternate reference: 4.16
Nehemiah 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.
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Source alternate reference: 4.17
Nehemiah 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
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Nehemiah 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
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Nehemiah 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.
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Nehemiah 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter
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Nehemiah 13:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
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Esther 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,
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Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
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Esther 6:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
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Esther 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” ordered the king.
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Job 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Job 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Job 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Job 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Job 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
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Job 29:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
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Job 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
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Psalms 37:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
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Psalms 119:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
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Psalms 148:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
young men and maidens, old and young together.
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Proverbs 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
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Proverbs 7:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
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Proverbs 20:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.
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Proverbs 22:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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Proverbs 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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