H970 בָּחוּר (bâchûwr) baw-khoor'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

youth

Strong's Definition

properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)

Derivation: or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר);

KJV Usage: (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.

TWOT Reference: 231a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) youth, young man

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1415 G3494 G3495

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּחוּר (ba.chur) — youth. youth, young man

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בָּחוּר (H0970)

noun m · בחר

People | ≈ אִישׁ · אִישׁ שֵׂיבָה · אִשָּׁה · בֵּן · בַּת · בְּתוּלָה · זָקֵן · טַף · יֹונֵק · יָשֵׁשׁ · נַעַר · עֹולָל

young man = a young, fully grown, unmarried male ► associated with joy and strength

DEU 32:25 · JDG 14:10 · RUT 3:10 · 1SA 8:16 · 1SA 9:2 · 2SA 6:1 · 2KI 8:12 · 1CH 19:10 · 2CH 36:17 · 2CH 36:17 · PSA 78:31 · PSA 78:63 · PSA 148:12 · PRO 20:29 · ECC 11:9 · ISA 9:16 · ISA 23:4 · ISA 31:8 · ISA 40:30 · ISA 62:5 · JER 6:11 · JER 9:20 · JER 11:22 · JER 15:8 · JER 18:21 · JER 31:13 · JER 48:15 · JER 49:26 · JER 50:30 · JER 51:3 · JER 51:22 · LAM 1:15 · LAM 1:18 · LAM 2:21 · LAM 5:13 · LAM 5:14 · EZK 9:6 · EZK 23:6 · EZK 23:12 · EZK 23:23 · EZK 30:17 · JOL 3:1 · AMO 2:11 · AMO 4:10 · AMO 8:13 · ZEC 9:17

¹ 1SA 8:16 MT NJPS "your choice young men" | LXX "τὰ βουκόλια" RSV NIV NRSV REB "best of your cattle" NJB "best of your oxen" GNT "your best cattle" | CEV "best young men"

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בָּחוּר n.m. young man Is 62:5 7 t. base

Bible Occurrences (43)

32:25

14:10

3:10

8:16 9:2

8:12

36:17

78:31 78:63 148:12

20:29

11:9

9:17 23:4 31:8 40:30 62:5

6:11 9:21 11:22 15:8 18:21 31:13 48:15 49:26 50:30 51:3 51:22

1:15 1:18 2:21 5:13 5:14

9:6 23:6 23:12 23:23 30:17

2:28

2:11 4:10 8:13

9:17

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man... and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Judges 14:10

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as... was customary for the bridegroom.

Ruth 3:10

Then [Boaz] said, May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

1 Samuel 8:16

And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put [them] to his own use.

1 Samuel 9:2

And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal...... among the Israelites... — a head... taller than any of the people.

2 Kings 8:12

Why is my lord weeping? asked Hazael. Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites, [Elisha] replied. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.

2 Chronicles 36:17

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing... neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. [God] gave them all into the hand [of Nebuchadnezzar],

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.