נַעֲרָה

שִׁפְחָה shiphchâh · H8198 · female slave

נַעֲרָה (naʻărâh, H5291) emphasizes youth and marriageable age; שִׁפְחָה (shiphchâh, H8198) emphasizes servile or bonded social status.

παῖς paîs · G3816 · child, offspring

Greek παῖς denotes a child or young servant of either gender, overlapping with Hebrew נַעֲרָה in contexts where a young girl or female servant is in view, though παῖς has broader application to boys and male servants as well.

κοράσιον korásion · G2877 · girl

Hebrew נַעֲרָה (na'ărāh) and Greek κοράσιον (korasion) both denote a young female person, with κοράσιον carrying a diminutive nuance ('little girl') that overlaps with the younger end of נַעֲרָה's broader semantic range ('damsel, maid, young woman').

παρθένος parthénos · G3933 · virgin, young woman, chaste

Greek παρθένος specifically emphasizes virginity/unmarried status, while Hebrew נַעֲרָה is a broader age-based term for young woman that may or may not carry virginal connotations depending on context; the LXX alignment reflects contexts where the young-woman referent is specifically a virgin/maiden.

People001001003

The word is the common noun for a young woman or maiden, as Abraham's servant looks for the young woman who will offer to water his camels (Genesis 24:14, 24:16), tying the word to a person in this life stage.

Classes001001003001

The word is also used to classify a young unmarried woman by age and status, as Rebekah's household refers to her by this term when deciding whether she may stay a few more days (Genesis 24:55), tying the word to this social class.

Names of Locations003001010

This entry carries no independent place-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for a young woman, as in “Now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink’” (Genesis 24:14). The “Names of Locations” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme נַעֲרָה (Naʻărâh, H5292) rather than independently attested here.

Names of People003001007

This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for a young woman, as in “Now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink’” (Genesis 24:14). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme נַעֲרָה (Naʻărâh, H5292) rather than independently attested here.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.