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Hebrew n-m/f · H5271

נָעוּר

naurnaw-oor'

youth; youth

47 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nâʻûwr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5271is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 17 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 40
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5271

(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)

The King James renders it: childhood, youth.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

naur is rendered "youth; youth". It stands 47 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "youth".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
  • The Greek text spells it forty different ways.

The first use

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

Genesis 8:21מִנְּעֻרָ֑יו

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seventeen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 22 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: youth, and youth.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
youthStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart…
youthStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • youths your10
  • since youths my9
  • since youths your4
  • youths her4
  • youths my4
  • in youths her3
  • since youths our3
  • in youths their2
  • since youths his2
  • in youths his1
  • like youths her1
  • since youths its1

and 3 more, 47 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 47, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

40 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ3
  • מִנְּעוּרָ֑י2
  • מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃2
  • נְעוּרָֽי׃2
  • נְעוּרֶ֔יהָ2
  • נְעוּרַ֔יִךְ2
  • בִנְעוּרֶ֔יהָ1
  • בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם1
  • בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ן1
  • בִּנְעוּרָֽיו׃ ס1
  • בִּנְעֻרֶ֖יהָ1
  • בִּנְעֻרֶֽיהָ׃1

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular9HR/Ncmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular7HNcmpc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HNcmpc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular4HR/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HNcmpc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural3HR/Ncmpc/Sp1bp
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular3HR/Ncmpc/Sp2fs
  • noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp2ms

Genesis

two uses
  • When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

    Genesis 8:21

    • מִנְּעֻרָ֑יוmineuravpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: since youths his
  • you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

    Genesis 46:34

    • מִנְּעוּרֵ֣ינוּmineureinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: since youths our

Leviticus

one use
  • But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

    Leviticus 22:13

    • כִּנְעוּרֶ֔יהָkinureihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: like youths her

Numbers

two uses
  • And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

    Numbers 30:3

    • בִּנְעֻרֶֽיהָ׃binureihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in youths her
  • These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.

    Numbers 30:16

    • בִּנְעֻרֶ֖יהָbinureihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in youths her

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

    1 Samuel 12:2

    • מִנְּעֻרַ֖יmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

    1 Samuel 17:33

    • מִנְּעֻרָֽיו׃ סmineuravpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: since youths his

2 Samuel

one use
  • Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

    2 Samuel 19:7

    • מִנְּעֻרֶ֖יךָmineureikhapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: since youths your

1 Kings

one use
  • I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

    1 Kings 18:12

    • מִנְּעֻרָֽי׃mineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my

Job

two uses
  • For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

    Job 13:26

    • נְעוּרָֽי׃neurainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: youths my
  • though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

    Job 31:18

    • מִ֭נְּעוּרַיmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my

Psalms

eight uses
  • Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.

    Psalms 25:7

    • נְעוּרַ֨י׀neurainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: youths my
  • For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

    Psalms 71:5

    • מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃mineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

    Psalms 71:17

    • מִנְּעוּרָ֑יmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

    Psalms 103:5

    • נְעוּרָֽיְכִי׃neurayekhinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
  • Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.

    Psalms 127:4

    • הַנְּעוּרִֽים׃haneurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
  • Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—

    Psalms 129:1

    • מִנְּעוּרַ֑יmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

    Psalms 129:2

    • מִנְּעוּרָ֑יmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

    Psalms 144:12

    • בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥םbinureihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: in youths their

Proverbs

two uses
  • who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

    Proverbs 2:17

    • נְעוּרֶ֑יהָneureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: youths her
  • May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

    Proverbs 5:18

    • נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃neurekhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: youths your

Isaiah

three uses
  • So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

    Isaiah 47:12

    • מִנְּעוּרָ֑יִךְmineurayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: since youths your
  • This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

    Isaiah 47:15

    • מִנְּעוּרַ֗יִךְmineurayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: since youths your
  • For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.

    Isaiah 54:6

    • נְעוּרִ֛יםneurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: youths

Jeremiah

eight uses
  • “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

    Jeremiah 2:2

    • נְעוּרַ֔יִךְneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
  • Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

    Jeremiah 3:4

    • נְעֻרַ֖יneurainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: youths my
  • From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

    Jeremiah 3:24

    • מִנְּעוּרֵ֑ינוּmineureinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: since youths our
  • Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

    Jeremiah 3:25

    • מִנְּעוּרֵ֖ינוּmineureinupreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: since youths our
  • I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

    Jeremiah 22:21

    • מִנְּעוּרַ֔יִךְmineurayikhpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: since youths your
  • After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

    Jeremiah 31:19

    • נְעוּרָֽי׃neurainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: youths my
  • For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 32:30

    • מִנְּעֻרֹֽתֵיהֶ֑םmineuroteihempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: since youths their
  • Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

    Jeremiah 48:11

    • מִנְּעוּרָ֗יוmineuravpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: since youths its

Lamentations

one use
  • It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

    Lamentations 3:27

    • בִּנְעוּרָֽיו׃ סbinuravpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in youths his

Ezekiel

nine uses
  • “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

    Ezekiel 4:14

    • מִנְּעוּרַ֣יmineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my
  • And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

    Ezekiel 16:22

    • נְעוּרָ֑יִךְneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
  • Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

    Ezekiel 16:43

    • נְעוּרַ֔יִךְneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
  • But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

    Ezekiel 16:60

    • נְעוּרָ֑יִךְneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
  • and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

    Ezekiel 23:3

    • בִּנְעוּרֵיהֶ֖ןbinureihenpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: in youths their
  • She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

    Ezekiel 23:8

    • בִנְעוּרֶ֔יהָvinureihapreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in youths her
  • Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

    Ezekiel 23:19

    • נְעוּרֶ֔יהָneureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: youths her
  • So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

    Ezekiel 23:21

    • נְעוּרָ֑יִךְneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your
    • נְעוּרָֽיִךְ׃ סneurayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: youths your

Hosea

one use
  • There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

    Hosea 2:15

    • נְעוּרֶ֔יהָneureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: youths her

Joel

one use
  • Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

    Joel 1:8

    • נְעוּרֶֽיהָ׃neureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: youths her

Zechariah

one use
  • He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’

    Zechariah 13:5

    • מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃mineuraipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: since youths my

Malachi

two uses
  • Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

    Malachi 2:14

    • נְעוּרֶ֗יךָneureikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: youths your
  • Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

    Malachi 2:15

    • נְעוּרֶ֖יךָneureikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: youths your

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