Definition

(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)

Etymology

from H5287 (נָעַר);

Word family

• נָעַר nâʻar

How the KJV renders it

• babe
• boy
• child
• damsel (from the margin)
• lad
• servant
• young (man)

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.