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Lexicon :: Strong's H970 - bāḥûr

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בָּחוּר
Transliteration
bāḥûr
Pronunciation
baw-khoor'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Participle passive of בָּחַר (H977)
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TWOT Reference: 231a

Strong’s Definitions

בָּחוּר bâchûwr, baw-khoor'; or בָּחֻר bâchur; participle passive of H977; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective):—(choice) young (man), chosen, × hole.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x

The KJV translates Strong's H970 in the following manner: young man (42x), the chosen (1x), young (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x
The KJV translates Strong's H970 in the following manner: young man (42x), the chosen (1x), young (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. youth, young man

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּחוּר bâchûwr, baw-khoor'; or בָּחֻר bâchur; participle passive of H977; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective):—(choice) young (man), chosen, × hole.
STRONGS H970: Abbreviations
† בָּחוּר noun masculine young man Isaiah 62:5 + 7 times; plural בַּחוּרִים (intensive with daghesh forte implicit) Proverbs 20:29 + 13 times; construct בַּחוּרֵי Ezekiel 23:6 + 4 times; suffix בַּחוּרַי etc. Lamentations 1:18 + 16 times; — young man (choice, in the prime of manhood) 1 Samuel 9:2; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Isaiah 62:5; collective young men Jeremiah 15:8; בָּחוּר וּבְתוּלָה young men and virgins Deuteronomy 32:25; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Jeremiah 51:22; Ezekiel 9:6; usually plural Judges 14:10; Ruth 3:10; 1 Samuel 8:16; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Proverbs 20:29; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 40:30; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 9:20; Jeremiah 11:22; Jeremiah 18:21; Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah 51:3; Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 5:13, 14; Ezekiel 33:6, 12, 23; Ezekiel 30:17; Joel 3:1; Amos 2:11; Amos 4:10; || בתולות Psalm 78:63; Psalm 148:12; Isaiah 23:4; Jeremiah 31:13; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 2:21; Amos 8:13; Zechariah 9:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

32:25

Judges

14:10

Ruth

3:10

1 Samuel

8:16; 9:2

2 Kings

8:12

2 Chronicles

36:17; 36:17

Psalms

78:63; 148:12

Proverbs

20:29; 20:29

Ecclesiastes

11:9

Isaiah

9:17; 23:4; 31:8; 40:30; 62:5; 62:5

Jeremiah

6:11; 9:20; 11:22; 15:8; 18:21; 31:13; 48:15; 49:26; 50:3; 51:3; 51:22

Lamentations

1:15; 1:18; 1:18; 2:21; 5:13; 5:14

Ezekiel

9:6; 23:6; 30:17; 33:6; 33:12; 33:23

Joel

3:1

Amos

2:11; 4:10; 8:13

Zechariah

9:17

H970

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H970 matches the Hebrew בָּחוּר (bāḥûr),
which occurs 46 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 -
Without shall the sword bereave,
And in the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - And his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And he said, Blessed be thou of Jehovah, my daughter: thou hast showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 -
When the anger of God went up against them,
And slew of the fattest of them,
And smote down the young men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 -
Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins had no marriage-song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 -
Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 -
Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:29 -
The glory of young men is their strength;
And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:9 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be thou ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea hath spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:26 - Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 - and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 -
The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me;
He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men:
The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 -
Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:
Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow:
My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 -
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:
Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 -
The young men bare the mill;
And the children stumbled under the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 -
The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 - In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
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