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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 bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - And his father goeth down unto the woman, and Samson maketh there a banquet, for so the young men do;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - And he saith, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah, my daughter; thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning -- not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men -- the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - and he hath a son, and his name is Saul, a choice youth and goodly, and there is not a man among the sons of Israel goodlier than he -- from his shoulder and upward, higher than any of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael saith, 'Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, 'Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel -- their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - And He causeth to go up against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slayeth their chosen ones by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and hath had no pity on young man and virgin, old man and very aged -- the whole He hath given into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 - Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:29 - The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:9 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: 'I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor 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 fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour it on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Spoiled is Moab, and her cities hath one gone up, And the choice of its young men Have gone down to slaughter, An affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:26 - Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all the men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - Lo, as a lion he cometh up, Because of the rising of the Jordan, Unto the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause them to run from off her. And who is chosen? on her I lay a charge, For who is like Me? And who doth convene Me? And who is this shepherd who standeth before Me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 - And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - Trodden down all my mighty ones hath the Lord in my midst, He proclaimed against me an appointed time, To destroy my young men, A wine-press hath the Lord trodden, To the virgin daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - Lain on the earth in out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered -- Thou hast not pitied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom is the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - Clothed with blue -- governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - On sons of Asshur she hath doted, Governors and prefects, Neighbouring ones -- clothed in perfection, Horsemen, riding on horses, Desirable young men all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - Sons of Babylon, and of all Chaldea, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, All the sons of Asshur with them, Desirable young men, governors and prefects, All of them -- rulers and proclaimed ones, Riding on horses, all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And I raise of your sons for prophets, And of your choice ones for Nazarites, Is not this true, O sons of Israel? An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up -- even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 - In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - For what His goodness! and what His beauty! Corn the young men, And new wine the virgins -- make fruitful!
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