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HebrewH0980Noun

בַּחֻרִים

ba.chu.rim

4Occurrences
H0980Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Bachurim, a place in Palestine

or בַּחוּרִים; masculine plural of H970 (בָּחוּר); young men;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Bahurim = "young men's village" a town in Benjamin between Jerusalem and Jericho beyond the Mount of Olives on the way to Jericho

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

בַּחֻרִים appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
3
1 Kings
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 2:8BSB

Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’

2 Samuel 16:5BSB

As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

2 Samuel 17:18BSB

But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

2 Samuel 3:16BSB

Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he returned home.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.