Definition

(abstractly) boyhood

Etymology

from H5287 (נָעַר); (compare H5288 (נַעַר))

Word family

• נָעַר nâʻar
• נַעַר naʻar

How the KJV renders it

• child
• 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.