נעור
youth
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Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
44 distinct verses where H5271 appears in the Construct state, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 8:21 מִ/נְּעֻרָ֑י/ו prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 46:34 מִ/נְּעוּרֵ֣י/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 30:3 בִּ/נְעֻרֶֽי/הָ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
- Numbers 30:16 בִּ/נְעֻרֶ֖י/הָ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 12:2 מִ/נְּעֻרַ֖/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
- 1 Samuel 17:33 מִ/נְּעֻרָֽי/ו prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 7 verses
- Psalms 25:7 נְעוּרַ֨/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, For your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
- Psalms 71:5 מִ/נְּעוּרָֽ/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; My confidence from my youth.
- Psalms 71:17 מִ/נְּעוּרָ֑/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
- Psalms 103:5 נְעוּרָֽיְ/כִי n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
- Psalms 129:1 מִ/נְּעוּרַ֑/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
- Psalms 129:2 מִ/נְּעוּרָ֑/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Psalms 144:12 בִּֽ/נְעוּרֵ֫י/הֶ֥ם prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Proverbs 2 verses
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 47:12 מִ/נְּעוּרָ֑יִ/ךְ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
- Isaiah 47:15 מִ/נְּעוּרַ֗יִ/ךְ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
Jeremiah 8 verses
- Jeremiah 2:2 נְעוּרַ֔יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Jeremiah 3:4 נְעֻרַ֖/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
- Jeremiah 3:24 מִ/נְּעוּרֵ֑י/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 3:25 מִ/נְּעוּרֵ֖י/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
- Jeremiah 22:21 מִ/נְּעוּרַ֔יִ/ךְ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.
- Jeremiah 31:19 נְעוּרָֽ/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
- Jeremiah 32:30 מִ/נְּעֻרֹֽתֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 48:11 מִ/נְּעוּרָ֗י/ו prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 8 verses
- Ezekiel 4:14 מִ/נְּעוּרַ֣/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
- Ezekiel 16:22 נְעוּרָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.
- Ezekiel 16:43 נְעוּרַ֔יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 16:60 נְעוּרָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
- Ezekiel 23:3 בִּ/נְעוּרֵי/הֶ֖ן prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fp and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
- Ezekiel 23:8 בִ/נְעוּרֶ֔י/הָ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.
- Ezekiel 23:19 נְעוּרֶ֔י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:21 נְעוּרָ֑יִ/ךְ נְעוּרָֽיִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
Malachi 2 verses
- Malachi 2:14 נְעוּרֶ֗י/ךָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
- Malachi 2:15 נְעוּרֶ֖י/ךָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“youth” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun נעור (nâʻûwr). First canonically at Genesis 8:21, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 46 verses — moderately common. It shares a root with נער, נערה and נערי. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5271 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 46
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 46 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #783
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 783 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 46 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 46 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 28 verses · 61%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 13 verses · 28%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Youth 43×
- American Standard Version†: Youth 40×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Youth 40×, One’s youth 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Youth 41×, The 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5271 across 47† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5271 across 47† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5271 across 46† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5271 across 46† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- youth, early life
Word origin
I. n.f. (ψ 103:5; Ges§ 145k) pl. youth, early life;—abs. נ׳ Is 54:6 ψ 127:4; elsewhere sf. נִעֻרַי 1 S 12:2, נְעוּרי Jb 31:18 +, נְעֻרֶיךָ 2 S 19:8, נִעוּרֶיךָ Pr 5:18 +, נְעוּרַיִךְ Je 2:2 +, נְעוּרָ֑יִכִי ψ 103:5, נִעוּרֵיהֶן Ez 23:3, etc.;—youth, early life, especially in phr. מִנּ׳ from one’s youth up Gn 8:21 (J), 1 S 17:33; 1 K 18:12; Je 3:24; Zc 13:5; Jb 31:18 (extreme youth; ‖ מִבֶּטֶן אִמִּי); fig. of Babylon Is 47:12, 15, Moab Je 48:11, Judah 22:21, cf. ψ 71:5, 17; 129:1, 2; מִנּ׳ וְעַד־עַתָּה Gn 46:34 (J), 2 S 19:8; Ez 4:14; מִנּ׳ וְעַד־הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה 1 S 12:2; Je 3:25; as time in or during which Lv 22:13 (H), Nu 30:4, 17 (P), La 3:27 ψ 144:12, fig. of Judah and Sam., personif., Ez 23:2, 8; cf. יְמֵי נ׳ (in fig. of Isr.) Ho 2:17 (‖ יוֹם עֲ֜לוֹתָהּ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם), Ez 16:22, 43, 60; 23:19; other phr. are: אַלּוּף נ׳ Je 3:4 friend of my youth, cf. Pr 2:17, עֲוֹנוֹת נ׳ Jb 13:26, חַטֹּאות נ׳ ψ 25:7, חֶסֶד נ׳ Je 2:2, חֶרְפַּת נ׳ 31:19, זִמַּת נ׳ Ez 23:21, שְׁדֵי נ׳ v 21, בַּעַל נ׳ Jo 1:8, and especially אֵשֶׁת נ׳ Pr 5:18; Mal 2:14, 15; Is 54:6 (fig.); בְּנֵי נ׳ ψ 127:4 sons of (a man’s) youth; = youthful vigour ψ 103:5.
I. n.[f.]pl. id.;—only מִנְּעֻרֹתֵיהֶם Je 32:30 (fig. of nation).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נער (naʻar) (H5288) — boy.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נֵעוֹר
- , v. עוּר
עוּר I
- (b. h.) [to be stirred up, v. עָרַר,] to wake (act. a. neut.). [Y. B. Bath. III, 14ᵃ וצריך לעורו, read לעורר, v. infra.]—Part. עֵר; f. עֵרָה; pl. עֵרִים; עֵרוֹת, עֵי׳. B. Kam. II, 5 בין ער בין ישן whether awake or asleep. Nidd. 12ᵃ. Sabb. 55ᵇ; Snh. 82ᵃ (ref. to Mal. II, 12) שלא יהיה לו ער … ועונה וכ׳ he shall have none awakening (teaching) among the teachers and none responding among the scholars. Cant. R. to V, 2 אני ישנה מן המצות ולבי ער לגמילת חסדים I am asleep (negligent) in ceremonies, but my heart is awake for charity; אני ישנה מן הצדקות ולבי ער לעשותן I am asleep (careless) about righteous deeds, but my heart awakens me (stirs me up) to do them; ib. ולבו של הקב"ה ער לגאלני but the heart of the Lord, is awake (anxious) to redeem me; Pesik. Haḥod. p. 46ᵇ; Pesik. R. s. 15 ולבי ער להקב"ה לגאלני but my heart is awake (waiting) for the Lord to redeem me; Yalk. Cant. 988; Tanḥ. ed. Bub., Tol’doth 18. Der. Er. Zuta ch. V לא יהא אדם ער … בין העי׳ one must not be awake among those sleeping, nor asleep among those awake. Nidd. l. c. בין ישנות בין ע׳ whether they are asleep or awake; a. fr. e.g. Malachi 2:12
- to be awake, wake up; to be stirred up, become active. B. Bath. 74ᵇ והוה ר"א ישן ור"י נעור (not ניער) R. E. was asleep, and R. J. awake. Gitt. VIII, 2 (78ᵃ) (נֵי׳) נֵעוֹרָה קוראה וכ׳ when she woke up, she read and found it was her letter of divorce. Ab. III, 4 הנ׳ בלילה he who is awake by night. Sifré Deut. 314 כדי שיעֵוֹרוּ בניו (not שיעירו) that his young brood may wake up; Yalk. ib. 944. Cant. R. to IV, 8 (read:] בתחלה הוא נעור וכ׳ (or נִנְעַר, v. נָעַר II) first he bestirs himself (and proceeds) from the Temple &c.; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 73ᵃ, a. fr. מצא מין את מינו וניעור kind found its kind and was stirred up, i.e. the two equal elements in the mixture join to become working agents.—V. נָעַר II.
- to wake up; to stir up, instigate. Gen. R. s. 43 מי הוא זה שה׳ לבם של מזרחיים וכ׳ who was he that stirred up the heart of the eastsrn nations that they should come and fall &c.?; Yalk. Is. 311 שה׳ בלבם של אזרחיים (corr. acc.). Ib. ישנים … ומי הֵעִירָן לבא וכ׳ the nations were too indifferent to come under the wings of the Lord, and who waked them up to come under his wings? Snh. 25ᵇ (expl. מפריחי יונים, ib. III, 3) אלו שמְעִירִין וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שממרין) those who stir up the pigeons (on which they bet), v. מָרָה II.
- to be stirred up, be removed. Gen. R. s. 85 שה׳ מן העולם, v. עֵר II; Yalk. ib. 145.
- 1. to wake up. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ (ref. to Ps. LVII, 9) דרכן … להיות השחר מְעוֹרְרָן it is usual with kings that the dawn wakes them up; Tanḥ. B’ha‘ăl. 10 דרך השחר מְעוֹרֵר … מעורר וכ׳ usually the dawn wakes the sons of man, but I wake the dawn up. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵈ bot. היודע … הוא יְעוֹרֵר אתכם he that knows your numbers wake you (from death); a. fr.—Y. Ter. V, end, 43ᵈ מעורר את מינו ליאסר stirs up its kind (makes it an agent) to become forbidden, v. supra.—Maas. Sh. V, 15 בטל את המְעוֹרְרִים abolished the wakers; Sot. IX, 10, expl. ib. 48ᵃ; Tosef. ib. XIII, 9 מעוררין אילו הלוים וכ׳ the wakers are the Levites, who … sang, Awake &c. (Ps. XLIV, 24). Lev. R. s. 7, beg. שנאה … היא עוֹרְרָה עליהן דיני דינין hatred … stirred up against them judgment upon judgment; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 57:9
- 2. to excite to lamentation, arrange a memorial service, engage a travelling wailer. M. Kat. I, 5 לא יְעוֹרֵר וכ׳ one must not arrange a memorial service &c., v. סַפְדָּנָא; ib. 8ᵃ לא יערער, v. עִרְעֵר.
- 3. to raise an objection; to contest the legality of. Y. B. Bath. III, 14ᵃ (interch. with עָרַר) מכיון שערר … צריך לעוֹרֵר עליו since he contested the right of possession in three successive years, he need no longer contest. Ib. צריך לעורו (corr. acc.); v. עָרַר a. עִרְעֵר.
- , Nithpol. נִתְעוֹרֵר
- 1. to be waked up; to bestir one’s self. Lev. R. l. c. עד שנה שנִתְעוֹרְרָה עליהן וכ׳ up to the year when it (hatred) was stirred up against them &c. Lev. R. s. 9 (ref. to Cant. IV, 16) לכשיִתְעוֹרְרוּ הגליות וכ׳ when the exiled colonies in the north are waked up (to be redeemed), they will come &c.; ib. לכשיִתְעוֹרֵר גוג וכ׳ when Gog bestirs himself (to war) &c. Ib. דבר שהוא ישן ונתע׳ a thing (the daily offering) which was asleep (during the captivity) and has been reawakened (reinstated); a. e. e.g. Song of Solomon 4:16
- 2. to be lively; to enjoy one’s self. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLIX הִתְעוֹרְרוּ עלי וכ׳ enjoy yourselves with me at your pleasure.
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Forms in the corpus
The 40 distinct written forms H5271 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5271, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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- נערי Naʻăray H5293 Naarai
- נעריה Nᵉʻaryâh H5294 Neariah
- נערן Naʻărân H5295 Naaran
- ענר ʻÂnêr H6063 Aner
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 45 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 46 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 8:21
- Leviticus 22:13
- Numbers 30:3
- 1 Samuel 12:2
- 2 Samuel 19:7
- 1 Kings 18:12
- Job 13:26
- Psalms 25:7
- Proverbs 2:17
- Isaiah 47:12
- Jeremiah 2:2
- Lamentations 3:27
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
