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Youth

צְעִירָהStrong’s H6812

tseirah (tse-i-rah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tseirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “according to youth his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.”
Genesis 43:33 KJV
Meaning
  1. Youth
How it's translated
  • according to youth his 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    צְעִירָה tseirah · 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.]

    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.