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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 BoxDeu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - And his father went down to the woman, and Sampson made there a [fn]banquet for seven days, for so the young men are used to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And Booz said, Blessed be thou of the Lord God, my daughter, for thou hast made thy latter kindness greater than the former, in that thou followest not after young men, whether any be poor or rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - And he will take your servants, and your handmaids, and your good herds and your asses, and will take the tenth of them for his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - And this man had a son, and his name was Saul, of great stature, a goodly man; and there was not among the sons of Israel a goodlier than he, high above all the [fn]people [fn]from his shoulders and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Azael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know all the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: thou wilt [fn]utterly destroy their strong holds with fire, and thou wilt slay their choice men with the sword, and thou wilt dash their infants against the ground, and their women with child thou wilt rip up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - (LXX 77:31) then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - (LXX 77:63) Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - (LXX 88:20) Then thou spokest in vision to thy children, and saidst, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 - young men and virgins, old men with youths:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:29 - Wisdom is an ornament to young men; and grey hairs are the glory of old men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 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 blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - (LXX 9:16) Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall be overthrown:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell in thee: and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - And I allowed my wrath to come to the full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - (LXX 9:20) For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - behold, I will visit them: their young men shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - (LXX 38:13) Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - (LXX 31:15) Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:26 - (LXX 30:32) Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - (LXX 27:30) Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - (LXX 27:44) Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gæthan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - (LXX 28:3) Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 - (LXX 28:22) And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - Samech. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - Tsade. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - Chsen. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: thou hast slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, thou hast not spared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Slay utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horsemen riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the sons of the Assyrians, princes and captains, her neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - (LXX 3:1) And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 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 BoxZec 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.
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