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Strong's #5291 - נַעֲרָה
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- girl, damsel, female servant
- girl, damsel, little girl
- of young woman, marriageable young woman, concubine, prostitute
- maid, female attendant, female servant
- girl, damsel, little girl
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2418) ron (נאהר NAhR) AC: ? CO: Young AB: ?: [from: lo]
Nm ) ron (נאהר NAhR) - Young: A young male. KJV (239): young man, servant, child, lad, young, children, youth, babe, boy - Strongs: H5288 (נַעַר), H5289 (נַעַר)
Nf1) eron (נאהרה NAhRH) - Young: A young female. KJV (62): damsel, maiden, maid, young - Strongs: H5291 (נַעֲרָה)
df) rfon (נאהור NAhWR) - Youth: KJV (47): youth, childhood - Strongs: H5271 (נְעֻרָה)
gm) rofn (נואהר NWAhR) - Youth: KJV (4): child, youth - Strongs: H5290 (נֹעַר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 girl, damsel; קְטַנָּה׳נ little girl only 2 Kings 5:2, compare 2 Kings 5:4, perhaps = young daughters Job 40:29; elsewhere = young woman 1 Samuel 9:11; especially as marriageable, Genesis 24:14,16,28,55,57; Genesis 34:3,12 (all J), Deuteronomy 22:15 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:16,19,20,21,24,26 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:29; 1 Kings 1:3,4; Esther 2:4,7,8,9,12 (twice in verse); Esther 2:13; specifically virgin בְּתוּלָה׳נ Judges 21:12; Deuteronomy 22:23,28; 1 Kings 1:2; Esther 2:2,3(compare Deuteronomy 22:15b; Deuteronomy 22:20); מְאֹרָשָׂה׳נ betrothed girl Deuteronomy 22:25,27; young widow Ruth 2:6; Ruth 4:12; of a concubine Judges 19:3,4,5,6,8,9, a prostitute Amos 2:7.
2 of female attendants, maids (always plural), Genesis 24:61 (J), Exodus 2:5 (E), 1 Samuel 25:42; Proverbs 9:3; Proverbs 27:27; Proverbs 31:15; Esther 2:9 (twice in verse); Esther 4:4,16; gleaners Ruth 2:5,8,22,23; Ruth 3:2. —
Note. נער Kt in Pentateuch as feminine (Qr נַעֲרָ֯) is probably not original; it is not found in Sam. Pentateuch, and feminine plural נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ occurs Genesis , Exodus; compare Ges§§ 2 n, 17c.
נַעֲרָה f.
(1) a girl, Judges 19:4, seqq.; Esther 2:9, 13 also used of one νεόγαμος, Ruth 2:6 (compare בְּתוּלָה).
(2) handmaid, a servant, Proverbs 9:3, 31:15 Ruth 2:8, 22 3:2.
(3) [Naarah, Naarath], pr.n.
(a) of a town on the confines of the tribe of Ephraim (Joshua 16:7), called, 1 Chronicles 7:28, נַעֲרָן.
(b) f. 1 Chronicles 4:5.