Youth
נְעוּרִיםStrong’s H5271naur (na-ur)
Appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naur is the Hebrew word usually translated “youth your”, “since youth my” and “since youth your”. It appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament.
“But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.”
Meaning
- Youth, early life
- Youth, early life
How it's translated
- youth your 10
- since youth my 9
- since youth your 4
- youth my 4
- youth her 4
- since youth our 3
- in youth her 3
- since youth his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Jeremiah 8
- Ezekiel 8
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Numbers 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:21And 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 46:34That 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 22:13But 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 no stranger eat thereof.
- Numbers 30:3If 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 30:16These 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 12:2And 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.
All 46 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נְעוּרִים naur · youth
youth, early life Also means: na.ur (נְעוּרוֹת "youth" H5271B)
נְעוּרוֹת naur · youth
youth, early life Another spelling of na.ur (נְעוּרִים "youth" H5271A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “youth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YOUTH, noun
Yuth. [G.]
- The part of life that succeeds to childhood.
- A young man.
- A young person, male or female.
- Young persons, collectively.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.