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נָעוּר

naur · youth

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5271 · appears 47 times in the Bible

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What it means

naur (נָעוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “youth”.

The time of being young.

How to say it

na·ur

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The first years of adult life, when one is young.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Youth: the first years of life, from childhood to adulthood. It almost always goes with ‘from’ (‘from my youth’), to say that something lasts a whole life, or with ‘of’, for what belongs to those years.

Historical and cultural background

After the flood YHWH says that “the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21). The laws of vows in Numbers 30 speak of the young woman who lives “in the house of her father in her youth” (30:3, 16).

How we translate it

Always “youth” (47 times), almost always “from my youth”, “from his youth” or “of your youth”.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 8:21

    And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

  • Genesis 46:34

    you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of flocks is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

  • Leviticus 22:13

    But if the daughter of a priest becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child, and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; but no stranger shall eat of it.

  • Numbers 30:3

    And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH and binds an obligation on herself in the house of her father in her youth,

  • Numbers 30:16

    These are the statutes that YHWH commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, in her youth, in the house of her father.

  • 1 Samuel 12:2

    And now, look, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons, look, they are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

  • 1 Samuel 17:33

    Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are a young man, and he is a man of war from his youth.”

  • 2 Samuel 19:7

    Now then, get up, go out, and speak to the heart of your servants; for by YHWH I swear that if you do not go out, not a man will spend the night with you tonight; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

  • 1 Kings 18:12

    And it will be, when I go from you, that the spirit of YHWH will carry you to where I do not know; and I will come to tell Ahab, and he will not find you, and he will kill me. Yet I, your servant, have feared YHWH from my youth.

  • Job 13:26

    For you write against me bitter things and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

  • Job 31:18

    —for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from the womb of my mother I guided her—

  • Psalms 25:7

    The sins of my youth and my transgressions do not remember; according to your loyal love, you remember me, for the sake of your goodness, YHWH.

  • Psalms 71:5

    For you are my hope, Adonai YHWH, my confidence from my youth.

  • Psalms 71:17

    Elohim, you have taught me from my youth, and until now I declare your wonders.

  • Psalms 103:5

    who satisfies with good your ornament, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

  • Psalms 127:4

    Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of youth.

  • Psalms 129:1

    A song of the ascents. Greatly they have attacked me from my youth— let Israel say now—

  • Psalms 129:2

    greatly they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

  • Psalms 144:12

    so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth, our daughters like corners carved in the pattern of a palace;

  • Proverbs 2:17

    who abandons the companion of her youth, and the covenant of her Elohim has forgotten.

  • Proverbs 5:18

    Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

  • Isaiah 47:12

    Stand now with your spells and with the great number of your sorceries, in which you have worn yourself out from your youth; perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you will cause terror.

  • Isaiah 47:15

    So they are to you, those with whom you wore yourself out, your merchants from your youth; each to his own side they wander; there is no one to save you.”

  • Isaiah 54:6

    For like a woman abandoned and grieved in spirit YHWH has called you, and like the wife of youth when she is rejected,” says your Elohim.

  • Jeremiah 2:2

    “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: I remember for you the loyal love of your youth, the love of your betrothal, when you walked after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

  • Jeremiah 3:4

    Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the companion of my youth!

  • Jeremiah 3:24

    But the Shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Jeremiah 3:25

    Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us, for against YHWH our Elohim we have sinned, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not heeded the voice of YHWH our Elohim.”

  • Jeremiah 22:21

    I spoke to you in your ease; you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, that you have not listened to my voice.

  • Jeremiah 31:19

    For after I turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck on my thigh; I was ashamed, and also humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’

  • Jeremiah 32:30

    For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their youth; for the sons of Israel have done nothing but provoke me with the work of their hands, declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 48:11

    Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.

  • Lamentations 3:27

    Good it is for the man that he bear a yoke in his youth.

  • Ezekiel 4:14

    And I said, “Ah, Adonai YHWH! Look, my soul has not been defiled; a carcass or what was torn by beasts I have not eaten from my youth until now, and no repulsive meat has come into my mouth.”

  • Ezekiel 16:22

    And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

  • Ezekiel 16:43

    Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but raged against me with all these things, I also, look, will bring your way on your head, declares Adonai YHWH; and did you not commit the infamy on top of all your abominations?

  • Ezekiel 16:60

    But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an eternal covenant.

  • Ezekiel 23:3

    And they prostituted themselves in Egypt; in their youth they prostituted themselves; there their breasts were pressed, and there were squeezed the bosoms of their virginity.

  • Ezekiel 23:8

    And her prostitutions from Egypt she did not abandon, for with her they lay in her youth, and they squeezed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their prostitution on her.

  • Ezekiel 23:19

    And she multiplied her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

And 7 more times.