Definition

(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)

Etymology

or נָעֻר; and (feminine) נְעֻרָה; properly, passive participle from H5288 (נַעַר) as denominative;

Word family

• נַעַר naʻar

How the KJV renders it

• childhood
• youth

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.