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HebrewH0970Noun (Masculine)

בָּחוּר

ba.chur

40Occurrences
H0970Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)

or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
youth, young man

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

בָּחוּר appears 40 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
10
Ezk
5
Lamentations
5
Isaiah
4
Amos
3
Psalms
3
1 Samuel
2
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 8:16BSB

And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.

Ecclesiastes 11:9BSB

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young,and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth.Walk in the ways of your heartand in the sight of your eyes,but know that for all these thingsGod will bring you to judgment.

Isaiah 40:30BSB

Even youths grow tired and weary,and young men stumble and fall.

Jeremiah 49:26BSB

For her young men will fall in the streets,and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”declares the LORD of Hosts.

Lamentations 5:13BSB

Young men toil at millstones;boys stagger under loads of wood.

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