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# בָּחוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H970

**young man** — used 44 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

young man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/970/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּחוּר: n.m. young man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/970/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young man Is 62:5 + 7 times; pl. בַּחוּרִים (intensive with dag. f. implic.) Pr 20:29 + 13 times; cstr. בַּחוּרֵי Ez 23:6 + 4 times; sf. בַּחוּרַי etc. La 1:18 + 16 times;—young man (choice, in the prime of manhood) 1 S 9:2 Ec 11:9 Is 62:5; coll. young men Je 15:8; בָּחוּר וּבְתוּלָה young men and virgins Dt 32:25 2 Ch 36:17 Je 51:22 Ez 9:6; usually pl. Ju 14:10 Ru 3:10 1 S 8:16 2 K 8:12 2 Ch 36:17 Pr 20:29 Is 9:17; 31:8; 40:30 Je 6:11; 9:20; 11:22; 18:21; 48:15; 49:26; 50:30; 51:3 La 1:15; 5:13, 14 Ez 33:6, 12, 23; 30:17 Jo 3:1 Am 2:11; 4:10; ‖ בתולות ψ 78:63; 148:12 Is 23:4 Je 31:13 La 1:18; 2:21 Am 8:13 Zc 9:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: men (15); young men (9); young man (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 148:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.12/#tree)

בַּחוּרִ֥ים וְגַם־בְּתוּל֑וֹת זְ֝קֵנִ֗ים עִם־נְעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* O.young.men and also young.women O.old.\[people\] with youths

*JPS 1917:* Both young men and maidens, old men and children;

[Proverbs 20:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.29/#tree)

תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת בַּחוּרִ֣ים כֹּחָ֑ם וַהֲדַ֖ר זְקֵנִ֣ים שֵׂיבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].glory of.young.men strength \[is\].their and.\[the\] splendor of.old.\[people\] \[is\].gray.hair

*JPS 1917:* The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/970.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/970/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).