To growl
נָעַרStrong’s H5286naar (na-ar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Naar is the Hebrew word usually translated “growl”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to growl
How it's translated
- they growl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נָעַר naar · to growl
(Qal) to growl
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “growl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROWL, verb intransitive
[Gr. a grunting.]
To murmur or snarl, as a dog; to utter an angry, grumbling sound.
All definitions and other forms of “growl”
GROWL, verb transitive
To express by growling.
GROWL, noun
The murmur of a cross dog.
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.