נַעַר
naʻar · nah'-ar
(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)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- (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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
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
- 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 › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נַעַר 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
239 occurrences · 239 OT · 0 NT · 121 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and the child7 · 7%
- of the young men7 · 7%
- the child7 · 7%
- the lad7 · 7%
- his servant6 · 6%
- young men6 · 6%
- the servant5 · 5%
- the young men5 · 5%
- and the young man5 · 5%
- a young man5 · 5%
- unto the young man4 · 4%
- servants4 · 4%
- to his servant4 · 4%
- child4 · 4%
- and the lad3 · 3%
- servant3 · 3%
- unto his servant3 · 3%
- and the servant3 · 3%
- and his servant3 · 3%
- of the young man3 · 3%
- for the child3 · 3%
- of the child3 · 3%
- young3 · 3%
- of the lad2 · 2%
- and young2 · 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.