TBESH · H0970
בָּחוּר · ba.chur · youth
youth, young man
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ba.chur H970
בָּחוּר (ba.chur) means “youth” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בָּחוּר Hebrew · H970 44 tagged occurrences in 43 verses
Pronunciation guide: baw-khoor' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר); properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
KJV glosses: (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.
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How translators render H970
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| young men | 8 |
| the young men | 6 |
| their young men | 5 |
| her young men | 3 |
| my young men | 2 |
| of young men | 2 |
| the young man | 2 |
| your young men | 2 |
| and their young men | 1 |
| and young men | 1 |
| as a young man | 1 |
| cattle | 1 |
| choice | 1 |
| for the bridegroom | 1 |
| from your young men | 1 |
| his young men | 1 |
| my young warriors | 1 |
| o young man | 1 |
| of its young men | 1 |
| the young men as well | 1 |
| the younger men | 1 |
| will make the young men | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| young men | 7 |
| the young men | 4 |
| their young men | 3 |
| and my young men | 2 |
| both young men | 2 |
| of young men | 2 |
| your young men | 2 |
| a choice young man | 1 |
| a young man | 1 |
| and his young men | 1 |
| and of your young men | 1 |
| and the young men | 1 |
| and their young men | 1 |
| and young men | 1 |
| both the young man | 1 |
| for so used the young men | 1 |
| in holes | 1 |
| in their young men | 1 |
| my young men | 1 |
| o young man | 1 |
| of the young men | 1 |
| shall make the young men | 1 |
| the chosen | 1 |
| the young man | 1 |
| them the young men | 1 |
| therefore her young men | 1 |
| therefore shall her young men | 1 |
| upon young man | 1 |
| ye not her young men | 1 |
| young | 1 |
Verses containing H970
Page 1 of 1. 43 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Deuteronomy 32:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Judges 14:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
Read word by word - Ruth 3:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 9:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:17
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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,
Read word by word - Psalms 78:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
Read word by word - Psalms 78:63
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Read word by word - Psalms 148:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
young men and maidens, old and young together.
Read word by word - Proverbs 20:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 11:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 9:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.16
- Isaiah 23:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 31:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
Read word by word - Isaiah 40:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
Read word by word - Isaiah 62:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 9:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.20
- Jeremiah 11:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 15:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 48:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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!
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Lamentations 1:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Lamentations 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Read word by word - Lamentations 2:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Lamentations 5:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Read word by word - Lamentations 5:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 23:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 30:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
Read word by word - Joel 2:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.1
- Amos 2:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Amos 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
Read word by word - Amos 8:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
Read word by word - Zechariah 9:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
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