Hebrew word · H5292

נַעֲרָה

na'arah

Naarah

As a common noun: girl, young (unmarried or newly married) woman, female servant. As a proper name: Naarah. As a place name: Naarah/Naaran on the border of Ephraim (Josh 16:7; 1 Chr 7:28).

Appears 4 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A womanof the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ch.4.5; married to Ashhur (H0806);

mother of: Ahuzzam (H0275), Hepher (H2660), Temeni (H8488) and Haahashtari (H0326)

§ Naarah or Naarath = "maiden"

the 2nd wife of Ashur of the tribe of Judah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 4:5

Range of meaning

As a common noun: girl, young (unmarried or newly married) woman, female servant. As a proper name: Naarah. As a place name: Naarah/Naaran on the border of Ephraim (Josh 16:7; 1 Chr 7:28).

Against the English

English versions transliterate it as a name, which is right. Hebrew hearers, though, would hear an ordinary word, roughly "Girl."

Used elsewhere in the period

The common noun is frequent: Gen 24:16, Ruth 2:5, Esther 2:4. The name of the woman occurs only in 1 Chr 4:5–6.

Similar words

Where it appears

Joshua · 1

  1. Joshua 16:7 וְנַעֲרָ֑תָה and Naarah towards

    From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.

1 Chronicles · 3

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:5 וְנַעֲרָֽה׃ and Naarah

    Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

    Here: The second wife's name. It is the same word as the common noun "girl, young woman." Verse 6 lists her sons, and a place called Naarah/Naaran also appears in Ephraim (Josh 16:7; 1 Chr 7:28).

  2. 1 Chronicles 4:6 נַעֲרָה֙ נַעֲרָֽה׃ Naarah

    Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.