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Youth

בָּחוּרStrong’s H0970

bachur (ba-chur)

Appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bachur is the Hebrew word usually translated “young men”, “young men its” and “young man”. It appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament.

“For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.”
Zechariah 9:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Youth, young man
How it's translated
  • young men 7
  • young men its 6
  • young man 4
  • young men of 4
  • the young men 3
  • young men your 3
  • a young man 3
  • young men their 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 11
  • Isaiah 5
  • Lamentations 5
  • Ezekiel 5
  • Psalms 3
  • Amos 3

16 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

בָּחוּר bachur · youth

youth, young man

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “youth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

YOUTH, noun

Yuth. [G.]

  1. The part of life that succeeds to childhood.
  2. A young man.
  3. A young person, male or female.
  4. Young persons, collectively.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.