נָעוּר
nâʻûwr · naw-oor'
(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
Lexicon
Derivation: or נָעֻר; and (feminine) נְעֻרָה; properly, passive participle from H5288 (נַעַר) as denominative;
(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: childhood, youth.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to see and know › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing that works to see and know that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָעוּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
47 occurrences · 47 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of thy youth8 · 17%
- of my youth4 · 9%
- of her youth4 · 9%
- from his youth3 · 6%
- from our youth3 · 6%
- from my youth3 · 6%
- me from my youth3 · 6%
- from thy youth3 · 6%
- for from my youth2 · 4%
- in their youth2 · 4%
- as in her youth1 · 2%
- in her youth1 · 2%
- being yet in her youth1 · 2%
- you from my childhood1 · 2%
- thee from thy youth1 · 2%
- things; so that thy youth1 · 2%
- of the youth1 · 2%
- of youth1 · 2%
- me from their youth1 · 2%
- in his youth1 · 2%
- for in her youth1 · 2%
- of his youth1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.