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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5291

נַעֲרָה

naarahnah-ar-aw'

maiden

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

Concordance spelling: naʻărâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5291is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 44
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5291

a girl (from infancy to adolescence)

The King James renders it: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).

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

naarah is rendered "maiden". It stands 63 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:14Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
  • The Greek text spells it forty-four different ways.

The first use

Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Genesis 24:14הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗

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

Where the word stands

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

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the young woman23
  • a young woman6
  • and the young woman4
  • the girl4
  • young women3
  • female servants his2
  • to the young woman2
  • a girl1
  • and a young woman1
  • and female attendants her1
  • and maids her1
  • and maids my1

and 14 more, 63 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.

נַעֲמָתִיNaamathiNaamathiteUses4
נַעֲצוּץnaatsutsthorn bushUses2
נַעֲמִיNaamiNaamiteUses1
נַעֲמָןnaamanpleasantnessUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 63, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

44 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

  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔ה5
  • נַעֲרָ֣ה5
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה4
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙3
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔2
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֜ה2
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה2
  • לְנַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃2
  • נַעֲרָ֤ה2
  • נְעָר֥וֹת2
  • בְּנַעֲר֥וֹת1
  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗1

and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular27HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular9HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HC/Td/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcfpc/Sp3fs
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HC/Ncfpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfpc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Ncfpc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfpc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ncfsa

Genesis

nine uses
  • Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

    Genesis 24:14

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

    Genesis 24:16

    • וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗vehanaaraconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the young woman
  • The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    Genesis 24:28

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”

    Genesis 24:55

    • הַנַּעֲרָ֥hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

    Genesis 24:57

    • לַֽנַּעֲרָ֑lanaarapreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the young woman
  • Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

    Genesis 24:61

    • וְנַעֲרֹתֶ֗יהָvenaaroteihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and maids her
  • And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

    Genesis 34:3

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the girl
    • הַֽנַּעֲרָֽ׃hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the girl
  • Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”

    Genesis 34:12

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖hanaarathe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the girl

Exodus

one use
  • Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

    Exodus 2:5

    • וְנַעֲרֹתֶ֥יהָvenaaroteihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and female attendants her

Deuteronomy

fourteen uses
  • Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

    Deuteronomy 22:15

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֛הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.

    Deuteronomy 22:16

    • הַֽנַּעַרָ֖הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

    Deuteronomy 22:19

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,

    Deuteronomy 22:20

    • לַֽנַּעֲרָֽה׃lanaarpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the young woman
  • she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 22:21

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֜הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

    Deuteronomy 22:23

    • נַעֲרָ֣הnaarnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
  • you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 22:24

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

    Deuteronomy 22:25

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙hanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

    Deuteronomy 22:26

    • וְלַֽנַּעֲרָה֙velanaarconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and to the young woman
    • לַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הlanaarpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the young woman
  • When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

    Deuteronomy 22:27

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙hanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

    Deuteronomy 22:28

    • נַעֲרָ֤הnaarnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
  • then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

    Deuteronomy 22:29

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הhanaarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman

Judges

seven uses
  • her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.

    Judges 19:3

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.

    Judges 19:4

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

    Judges 19:5

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֜הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”

    Judges 19:6

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָה֙hanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

    Judges 19:8

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”

    Judges 19:9

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֡הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

    Judges 21:12

    • נַעֲרָ֣הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: young woman

Ruth

seven uses
  • And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

    Ruth 2:5

    • הַנַּעֲרָ֥הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

    Ruth 2:6

    • נַעֲרָ֤הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
  • Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

    Ruth 2:8

    • נַעֲרֹתָֽי׃naarotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: female servants my
  • And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

    Ruth 2:22

    • נַ֣עֲרוֹתָ֔יוnaarotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: female servants his
  • So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

    Ruth 2:23

    • בְּנַעֲר֥וֹתbenaarotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with female servants of
  • Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

    Ruth 3:2

    • נַעֲרוֹתָ֑יוnaarotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: female servants his
  • And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

    Ruth 4:12

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”

    1 Samuel 9:11

    • נְעָר֔וֹתnearotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: young women
  • So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

    1 Samuel 25:42

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

1 Kings

three uses
  • So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”

    1 Kings 1:2

    • נַעֲרָ֣הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
  • Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

    1 Kings 1:3

    • נַעֲרָ֣הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
  • The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.

    1 Kings 1:4

    • וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הvehanaarahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the young woman

2 Kings

two uses
  • At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.

    2 Kings 5:2

    • נַעֲרָ֣הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a girl
  • And Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

    2 Kings 5:4

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the girl

Esther

thirteen uses
  • Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

    Esther 2:2

    • נְעָר֥וֹתnearotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: young women
  • and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

    Esther 2:3

    • נַעֲרָֽה־naarah-noun · feminine singulartagged: girl
  • Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.

    Esther 2:4

    • וְהַֽנַּעֲרָ֗הvehanaarahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the young woman
  • And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

    Esther 2:7

    • וְהַנַּעֲרָ֤הvehanaarahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the young woman
  • When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.

    Esther 2:8

    • נְעָר֥וֹתnearotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: young women
  • And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.

    Esther 2:9

    • הַנַּעֲרָ֣הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
    • הַנְּעָר֔וֹתhanearotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the servant girls
    • נַעֲרוֹתֶ֛יהָnaaroteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: servant girls her
  • In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

    Esther 2:12

    • נַעֲרָ֨הnaarahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a young woman
    • וְנַעֲרָ֜הvenaarahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a young woman
  • When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

    Esther 2:13

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman
  • When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

    Esther 4:4

    • נַעֲר֨וֹתnaarotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: maids of
  • “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

    Esther 4:16

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

Job

one use
  • Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

    Job 41:5

    • לְנַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃lenaaroteikhapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: for girls your

Proverbs

three uses
  • She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.

    Proverbs 9:3

    • נַעֲרֹתֶ֣יהָnaaroteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: female servants her
  • You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

    Proverbs 27:27

    • לְנַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ׃lenaaroteikhapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: of maids your
  • She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

    Proverbs 31:15

    • לְנַעֲרֹתֶֽיהָ׃lenaaroteihapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to female servants her

Amos

one use
  • They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

    Amos 2:7

    • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֔הhanaarahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the young woman

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