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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 - In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - “The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[fn] and donkeys he will take for his own use.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[fn] who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:63

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 - young men and women, 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, gray hair the splendor of the old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:9 - You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - “Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 62:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:22 - therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:15 - Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded; her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:26 - Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”

declares the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:44 - Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:3 - Let not the archer string his bow, nor let him put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; completely destroy[fn] her army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:22 - with you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young woman,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to[fn] crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - “The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - “Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:17 - The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - “I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:13 - “In that day “the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:17 - How attractive and beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
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