נַעֲרָה
naʻărâh · nah-ar-aw'
a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H5288 (נַעַר);
a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to see and know › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
The seed, life continuing that works to see and know of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נַעֲרָה 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
63 occurrences · 63 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the damsel4 · 10%
- damsel4 · 10%
- and the damsel3 · 7%
- of the damsel3 · 7%
- and the damsel's3 · 7%
- young3 · 7%
- the damsel's2 · 5%
- maidens2 · 5%
- and let it come to pass, that the damsel1 · 2%
- let the damsel1 · 2%
- and her damsels1 · 2%
- unto the damsel1 · 2%
- me the damsel1 · 2%
- and her maidens1 · 2%
- the tokens of the damsel's1 · 2%
- for the damsel1 · 2%
- if a damsel1 · 2%
- but unto the damsel1 · 2%
- there is in the damsel1 · 2%
- a damsel1 · 2%
- unto the damsel's1 · 2%
- for the damsel's1 · 2%
- whose damsel1 · 2%
- here fast by my maidens1 · 2%
- with his maidens1 · 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.