נַעֲרָה (na.a.rah) means “maiden” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: nah-ar-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
נַעֲרָה · na.a.rah · maiden
1) girl, damsel, female servant 1a) girl, damsel, little girl 1a1) of young woman, marriageable young woman, concubine, prostitute 1b) maid, female attendant, female servant
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feminine of H5288 (נַעַר); a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
KJV glosses: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the girl | 5 |
| the young woman | 3 |
| young | 3 |
| but the girls | 2 |
| girl | 2 |
| she | 2 |
| the girls | 2 |
| vvv | 2 |
| woman | 2 |
| young woman | 2 |
| a young | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and her attendants | 1 |
| and her servant girls | 1 |
| and my maidens | 1 |
| and the young woman | 1 |
| and when her | 1 |
| before her | 1 |
| for her maidservants | 1 |
| for your maidens | 1 |
| for your maidservants | 1 |
| her maidservants | 1 |
| his young women | 1 |
| let the girl | 1 |
| maidens | 1 |
| maidservants | 1 |
| my servant girls | 1 |
| now the girl | 1 |
| of her maidens | 1 |
| proof of the young womans | 1 |
| servant girls | 1 |
| some young women | 1 |
| that the girl | 1 |
| the proof of her | 1 |
| the same girl | 1 |
| the young girl | 1 |
| the young womans | 1 |
| then let the young woman | 1 |
| then the girls | 1 |
| then the young womans | 1 |
| to the servant girls | 1 |
| to the young woman | 1 |
| to the young womans | 1 |
| with them | 1 |
| young women | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| damsel | 4 |
| the damsel | 4 |
| and the damsel | 3 |
| and the damsels | 3 |
| of the damsel | 3 |
| the damsels | 3 |
| young | 3 |
| maid | 2 |
| maidens | 2 |
| a damsel | 1 |
| a young | 1 |
| and her damsels | 1 |
| and her maidens | 1 |
| and let it come to pass that the damsel | 1 |
| and let the maiden | 1 |
| and the maid | 1 |
| and the maiden | 1 |
| but unto the damsel | 1 |
| by the maidens | 1 |
| damsels | 1 |
| for the damsel | 1 |
| for the damsels | 1 |
| for thy maidens | 1 |
| her and her maids | 1 |
| her maidens | 1 |
| here fast by my maidens | 1 |
| him for thy maidens | 1 |
| i also and my maidens | 1 |
| if a damsel | 1 |
| in the damsel | 1 |
| let the damsel | 1 |
| maiden | 1 |
| maids | 1 |
| me the damsel | 1 |
| now when every maids | 1 |
| the maid | 1 |
| thee of this young woman | 1 |
| to her maidens | 1 |
| unto the damsel | 1 |
| unto the damsels | 1 |
| whose damsel | 1 |
| with his maidens | 1 |
| with whose maidens | 1 |
| young maidens | 1 |
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Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Read word by wordNow the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Read word by wordThe girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
Read word by wordBut her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
Read word by wordSo they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
Read word by wordThen Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Read word by wordAnd his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Read word by wordDemand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
Read word by wordSoon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
Read word by wordThen the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Read word by wordand say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
Read word by wordThey are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Read word by wordIf, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
Read word by wordshe shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Read word by wordIf there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Read word by wordyou must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Read word by wordBut if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
Read word by wordDo nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
Read word by wordWhen he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
Read word by wordIf a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
Read word by wordthen the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Read word by wordher 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.
Read word by wordHis father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
Read word by wordOn the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
Read word by wordSo they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
Read word by wordOn the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.
Read word by wordWhen 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.”
Read word by wordSo they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordAnd Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
Read word by wordThe foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
Read word by wordThen Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
Read word by wordAnd Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”
Read word by wordSo Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
Read word by wordNow is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Read word by wordAnd may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
Read word by wordAnd as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
Read word by wordSo Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
Read word by wordSo his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”
Read word by wordThen they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
Read word by wordThe girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.
Read word by wordAt this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.
Read word by wordAnd Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
Read word by wordThen the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,
Read word by wordand let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
Read word by wordThen let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.
Read word by wordAnd Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.
Read word by wordWhen the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
Read word by wordAnd the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
Read word by wordIn the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
Read word by wordWhen the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
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