נַעֲרָהnaʻărâh
girl, damsel
Pronunciation: nah-ar-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5291
Meanings
1. girl, damsel, elsewhere = young woman 1Sam 9:11 especially as marriageable (2 Kings 5:2; 2 Kings 5:4; Job 40:29)
2. of female attendants, maids (always plural) (Genesis 24:61; Exodus 2:5; 1 Samuel 25:42)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 63 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:14 This is my request. I will ask one of them, ‘Please give me a drink from your jug.’ If she says, ‘Yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels, too!’—let her be the one you have selected as Isaac’s wife. This is how I will know that you have shown unfailing love to my master.”
- Genesis 24:16 Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.
- Genesis 24:28 The young woman ran home to tell her family everything that had happened.
- Genesis 24:55 “But we want Rebekah to stay with us at least ten days,” her brother and mother said. “Then she can go.”
- Genesis 24:57 “Well,” they said, “we’ll call Rebekah and ask her what she thinks.”
- Genesis 24:61 Then Rebekah and her servant girls mounted the camels and followed the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and went on his way.
See every passage
- Genesis 24:14, 24:16, 24:28, 24:55, 24:57, 24:61, 34:3, 34:12
- Exodus 2:5
- Deuteronomy 22:15, 22:16, 22:19, 22:20, 22:21, 22:23, 22:24, 22:25, 22:26, 22:27, 22:28, 22:29
- Judges 19:3, 19:4, 19:5, 19:6, 19:8, 19:9, 21:12
- Ruth 2:5, 2:6, 2:8, 2:22, 2:23, 3:2, 4:12
- 1 Samuel 9:11, 25:42
- 1 Kings 1:2, 1:3, 1:4
- 2 Kings 5:2, 5:4
- Esther 2:2, 2:3, 2:4, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:12, 2:13, 4:4, 4:16
- Job 41:5
- Proverbs 9:3, 27:27, 31:15
- Amos 2:7
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).