Hebrew noun (feminine) · H979
בְּחֻרוֹת
bechurothbekh-oo-rothe'
youth
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉchurôwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H979is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H979
youth (collectively and abstractly)
The King James renders it: young men, youth.
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
bechuroth is rendered "youth". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 11:28Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
Numbers 11:28מִבְּחֻרָ֖יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- youths your2
- from youths his1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בְחוּרוֹתֶ֔ךָ1
- בְּחוּרֹתֶ֑יךָ1
- מִבְּחֻרָ֖יו1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcfpc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
Numbers
one use
Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
- מִבְּחֻרָ֖יוmibechuravpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from youths his
Ecclesiastes
two uses
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.
- בְחוּרוֹתֶ֔ךָvechurotekhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: youths your
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
- בְּחוּרֹתֶ֑יךָbechuroteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: youths your
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.