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

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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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Proverbs 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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Proverbs 29:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
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Ecclesiastes 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
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Isaiah 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
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Isaiah 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
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Isaiah 7:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
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Isaiah 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
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Isaiah 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
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Isaiah 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
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Isaiah 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
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Isaiah 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
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Isaiah 37:6 · 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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Isaiah 40:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
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Isaiah 65:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
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Jeremiah 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
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Jeremiah 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
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Jeremiah 51:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
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Lamentations 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
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Lamentations 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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Hosea 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
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Zechariah 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.
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Source alternate reference: 2.8

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