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.
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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).