Definition

a girl (from infancy to adolescence)

Etymology

feminine of H5288 (נַעַר);

Word family

• נַעַר naʻar

How the KJV renders it

• damsel
• maid(-en)
• young (woman)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.