Hebrew noun (masculine) · H970
בָּחוּר
bachurbaw-khoor'
youth
44 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâchûwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H970is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 32spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H970
properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
The King James renders it: (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
bachur is rendered "youth". It stands 44 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:25Outside, 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.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-two different ways.
The first use
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.
Deuteronomy 32:25בָּחוּר֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's forty-four uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- young men7
- young men its6
- young man4
- young men of4
- a young man3
- the young men3
- young men your3
- and young men2
- and young men my2
- young men their2
- and some of young men your1
- and the young men1
and 6 more, 44 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 44, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
32 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּחוּרִ֖ים4
- בָּח֣וּר3
- בַּח֥וּרֵי3
- בָּחוּר֙2
- בָּח֖וּר2
- בַחוּרֶ֖יהָ2
- בַּח֣וּרֵיכֶ֔ם2
- וּבַחוּרַ֖י2
- בָּח֥וּר1
- בַּח֨וּרֵי1
- בַּחוּרָ֑י1
- בַּחוּרֵיהֶ֤ם1
and 20 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural8HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular8HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HC/Ncmpc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- בָּחוּר֙bachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: young man
Judges
one use
Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- הַבַּחוּרִֽים׃habachurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
Ruth
one use
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.
- הַבַּ֣חוּרִ֔יםhabachurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
1 Samuel
two uses
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
- בַּחוּרֵיכֶ֧םbachureikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: young men your
And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
- בָּח֣וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young man
2 Kings
one use
“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.”
- וּבַחֻֽרֵיהֶם֙uvachureihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and young men their
2 Chronicles
two uses
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,
- בַּחוּרֵיהֶ֤םbachureihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: young men their
- בָּח֥וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: young man
Psalms
three uses
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
- וּבַחוּרֵ֖יuvachureiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and young men of
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
- בַּחוּרָ֥יוbachuravnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: young men its
young men and maidens, old and young together.
- בַּחוּרִ֥יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: O young men
Proverbs
one use
The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
- בַּחוּרִ֣יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
Ecclesiastes
one use
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
- בָּח֣וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: O young man
Isaiah
five uses
Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- בַּחוּרָ֜יוbachuravnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: young men its
Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
- בַּחוּרִ֖יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- וּבַחוּרָ֖יוuvachuravconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and young men its
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
- וּבַחוּרִ֖יםuvachurimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and young men
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- בָּחוּר֙bachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young man
Jeremiah
eleven uses
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
- בַּחוּרִ֖יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
- בַּחוּרִ֖יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
- הַבַּֽחוּרִים֙habachurimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- בָּח֖וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: a young man
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- בַּח֣וּרֵיהֶ֔םbachureihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: young men their
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
- וּבַחֻרִ֥יםuvachurimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and young men
Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- בַּֽחוּרָ֖יוbachuravnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: young men its
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- בַחוּרֶ֖יהָvachureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: young men its
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
- בַחוּרֶ֖יהָvachureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: young men its
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
- בַּ֣חֻרֶ֔יהָbachureihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: young men its
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
- בָּח֖וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: young man
Lamentations
five uses
The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
- בַּחוּרָ֑יbachurainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: young men my
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- וּבַחוּרַ֖יuvachuraiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and young men my
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
- וּבַחוּרַ֖יuvachuraiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and young men my
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
- בַּחוּרִים֙bachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
- בַּחוּרִ֖יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
Ezekiel
five uses
Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
- בָּח֣וּרbachurnoun · masculine singulartagged: young man
clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
- בַּח֥וּרֵיbachureinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young men of
She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
- בַּח֥וּרֵיbachureinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young men of
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.
- בַּח֨וּרֵיbachureinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young men of
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
- בַּח֥וּרֵיbachureinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: young men of
Joel
one use
And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- בַּח֣וּרֵיכֶ֔םbachureikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: young men your
Amos
three uses
I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
- וּמִבַּחוּרֵיכֶ֖םumibachureikhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and some of young men your
“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- בַּח֣וּרֵיכֶ֔םbachureikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: young men your
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- וְהַבַּחוּרִ֖יםvehabachurimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the young men
Zechariah
one use
How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
- בַּֽחוּרִ֔יםbachurimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: young men
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.