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# נָעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5286

**growl** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

growl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5286/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָעַר: vb. growl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5286/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. growl (NH id. cry, bray; cf. Syriac ܢܥܰܪ; Arabic نَعَرَ make a noise Lane2815; poss. Assyrian naʾru, cry, roar (?) DlHWB 439);—only Pf. 3 pl. נָֽעֲרוּ כְּגוֹרֵי אֲרָיוֹת Je 51:38 (‖ כַּכְּפִרִים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: they growl (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/#tree)

יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* together like.(the) young lions they.roar they.growl like cubs of.lions

*JPS 1917:* They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5286.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5286/): 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).