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Strong's H5271 נָעוּר (naur)

Naur means “youth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5271 — hypokrinomai (“feign”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5271
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 46
Books 17

Strong's H5271 Quick Answer

Strong's H5271 נָעוּר נָעוּר נְעוּרָה (na`uwr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. na`uwr (naw-oor') (or naur {naw-oor'} and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'};) n-f. 1. (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people) [(properly) passive participle from H5288 as denominative] It has 46 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include youth and only. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
na`uwr (naw-oor') (or naur {naw-oor'} and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'};) n-f. 1. (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people) [(properly) passive participle from H5288 as denominative]
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
youth and only

Meaning and Definition

na`uwr (naw-oor') (or naur {naw-oor'} and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'};) n-f. 1. (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people) [(properly) passive participle from H5288 as denominative] KJV: childhood, youth. Root(s): H5288

Original Word
נָעוּר נָעוּר נְעוּרָה
Transliteration
na`uwr
Derivation
First root strongs: 5288
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5271. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H5271 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render na`uwr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

youth Genesis 8:21 44× only Jeremiah 32:30

How Strong's H5271 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 46 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5271 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5271 in the Old Testament

46 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 8:21 KJV

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Genesis 46:34 KJV

That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Leviticus 22:13 KJV

But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5271.

Genesis 8:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis 46:34 Old Testament, KJV
That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Leviticus 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.
Numbers 30:3 Old Testament, KJV
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
Numbers 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
1 Samuel 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
1 Samuel 17:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
2 Samuel 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
1 Kings 18:12 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
Job 13:26 Old Testament, KJV
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 31:18 Old Testament, KJV
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Psalms 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
Psalms 71:5 Old Testament, KJV
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
Psalms 71:17 Old Testament, KJV
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Psalms 103:5 Old Testament, KJV
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalms 127:4 Old Testament, KJV
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Psalms 129:1 Old Testament, KJV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Psalms 129:2 Old Testament, KJV
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 144:12 Old Testament, KJV
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Proverbs 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Isaiah 47:12 Old Testament, KJV
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah 47:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Isaiah 54:6 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Jeremiah 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jeremiah 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Jeremiah 3:24 Old Testament, KJV
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah 3:25 Old Testament, KJV
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 22:21 Old Testament, KJV
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Jeremiah 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:11 Old Testament, KJV
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Lamentations 3:27 Old Testament, KJV
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Ezekiel 4:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Ezekiel 16:22 Old Testament, KJV
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel 16:43 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 16:60 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Ezekiel 23:8 Old Testament, KJV
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Hosea 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Joel 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Zechariah 13:5 Old Testament, KJV
But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
Malachi 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5271, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5271 FAQ

What does naur (נָעוּר) mean?

Naur (Strong's H5271) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "youth". na`uwr (naw-oor') (or naur {naw-oor'} and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'};) n-f. 1. (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people) [(properly) passive participle from H5288 as denominative]

How many times is naur (נָעוּר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's H5271 across 17 books.

Where can I study naur (נָעוּר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5271 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate naur (נָעוּר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as youth and only. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.