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Strong's #5286 - נָעַר
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1) (Qal) to growl
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2458) rgn (נגהר NGhR) AC: Shake CO: ? AB: ?: [from: gn]
V) rgn (נגהר NGhR) - Shake: To shake back and forth. KJV (12): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Piel) shake, overthrow, toss, yell - Strongs: H5286 (נָעַר), H5287 (נָעַר)
cf2) trfgn (נגהורת NGhWRT) - Fiber: As shaken from flax when beaten. KJV (2): tow - Strongs: H5296 (נְעֹרֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; Arabic 
make a noise Lane2815; possibly Assyrian na'ru, cry, roar (?) Dl HWB 439); — only Qal Perfect 3 plural נָָֽעֲרוּ כְּגוֺרֵי אֲרָיוֺת Jeremiah 51:38 ("" כַּכְּפִרִיםיִשְׁאָ֑גוּ).
נָעַר to roar (as a young lion), Jerem. 51:38. Syr. ܢܥܰܪ id. This word seems to be onomatop. like the kindred word נָחַה, uttering a hoarse roaring sound from the throat.
II. נָעַר to shake, specially
(1) to shake out, Nehemiah 5:13; Isaiah 33:15.
(2) to shake off. Isaiah 33:9, נֹעֵר בָּשָׁן וְכַרְמֶל “Bashan and Carmel shake off (the leaves),” i.e. cast them down.
Niphal
(1) pass. to be shaken out, i.e. cast out from a land, Job 38:13; Psalms 109:23. (Compare Arabic نفض to shake, to shake out, VIII. to be expelled, نَفْضُ expulsion).
(2) to shake oneself out (from bonds), to cast them off, Judges 16:20.
Piel, to shake out, Nehemiah 5:13. Pregn., Exodus 14:27, וַיְנַעֵר יְהֹוָה אֶת־מִצְרַיִם בְּתוֹךְ הַיָּם “and the Lord shook out the Egyptians into the midst of the sea,” i.e. he shook them from the land and cast them into the sea. Psalms 136:15.
Hithpael, to shake oneself out of any thing, followed by מִן Isaiah 52:2.
Hence נַעַר No. II, נְעֹרֶת.
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