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# נֹעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5290

**youth** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

youth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5290/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫עַר: n.m. youth, early life [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5290/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. youth, early life (rare poet. synon. for נְעוּרִים);—abs. נ׳ Jb 33:25 (= youthful vigour), 36:14, מִנּ׳ Pr 29:21 ψ 88:16 from youth up.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: youth (3); than youth (1).

## In the verses

[Job 33:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.25/#tree)

רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁ בְּשָׂר֣וֹ מִנֹּ֑עַר יָ֝שׁ֗וּב לִימֵ֥י עֲלוּמָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* it.grows.fresh flesh his more than.youth he.returns to the.days his.youthful.vigor(s) his

*JPS 1917:* His flesh is tenderer than a child's; he returneth to the days of his youth;

[Psalms 88:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.16/#tree)

עָ֘נִ֤י אֲנִ֣י וְגֹוֵ֣עַ מִנֹּ֑עַר נָשָׂ֖אתִי אֵמֶ֣יךָ אָפֽוּנָה׃

*Word for word:* \[have.been\].afflicted I and about.to.die from youth I.have.borne terrors your I.am.perplexed

*JPS 1917:* I am afflicted and at the point of death from my youth up; I have borne Thy terrors, I am distracted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5290.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5290/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).