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Strong's #5288: na`ar (pronounced nah'-ar)

from 5287; (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):--babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

na‛ar

1) a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer

1a) boy, lad, youth

1b) servant, retainer

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5287



Usage:

This word is used 239 times:

Judges 17:11: "to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons."
Judges 17:12: "And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest,"
Judges 18:3: "knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said"
Judges 18:15: "and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted"
Judges 19:3: "her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses:"
Judges 19:9: "to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said"
Judges 19:11: "the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come,"
Judges 19:13: "And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah,"
Judges 19:19: "and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want"
Ruth 2:5: "Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel"
Ruth 2:6: " And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish"
Ruth 2:9: "them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go"
Ruth 2:9: "the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn."
Ruth 2:15: "Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among"
Ruth 2:21: "Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended"
1 Samuel 1:22: "for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear"
1 Samuel 1:24: "him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."
1 Samuel 1:24: "of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."
1 Samuel 1:25: "a bullock, and brought the child to Eli."
1 Samuel 1:27: "For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition"
1 Samuel 2:11: "to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD"
1 Samuel 2:13: "offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook"
1 Samuel 2:15: "the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed,"
1 Samuel 2:17: "Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD:"
1 Samuel 2:18: "before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod."
1 Samuel 2:21: "sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD."
1 Samuel 2:26: " And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD,"
1 Samuel 3:1: " And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word"
1 Samuel 3:8: "that the LORD had called the child."
1 Samuel 4:21: "And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel:"
1 Samuel 9:3: "now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go"
1 Samuel 9:5: "of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return;"
1 Samuel 9:7: "Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man?"
1 Samuel 9:8: " And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here"
1 Samuel 9:10: "Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went"
1 Samuel 9:22: "took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the chiefest"
1 Samuel 9:27: "to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still"
1 Samuel 10:14: "said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek"
1 Samuel 14:1: "of Saul said unto the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over"
1 Samuel 14:6: "And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over"
1 Samuel 16:11: "unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest,"
1 Samuel 16:18: "Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse"
1 Samuel 17:33: "with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth."
1 Samuel 17:42: "he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance."
1 Samuel 17:55: "whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth,"
1 Samuel 17:58: "him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant"
1 Samuel 20:21: "And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows."
1 Samuel 20:21: "the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side"
1 Samuel 20:35: "at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with"
1 Samuel 20:36: "And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which"









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