Youth
בְּחוּרִיםStrong’s H0979bechurot (be-chu-rot)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bechurot is the Hebrew word usually translated “youth your” and “from youth his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.”
Meaning
- Youth
How it's translated
- youth your 2
- from youth his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Hebrew dictionary
בְּחוּרִים bechurot · youth
youth
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.