Youth
בָּחוּרStrong’s H0970bachur (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.”
Meaning
- 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.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- Judges 14:10So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
- Ruth 3:10And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
- 1 Samuel 8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
- 1 Samuel 9:2And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice 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.
- 2 Kings 8:12And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
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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.]
- The part of life that succeeds to childhood.
- A young man.
- A young person, male or female.
- 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.