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# בְּחֻרִים

Biblical Hebrew

**youth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

youth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d7_5bb_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּחוּרִים: n.f.abstr.pl. youth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d7_5bb_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.abstr.pl. youth, pl. sf. בְּחֻרָיו Nu 11:28 (J; Onk 𝔖 Ges De Di; בחיריו 𝔊 Sam 𝔙 Lu Ke); בְּחוּרוֹתֶיךָ Ec 11:9, בְּחוּרֹתֶיךָ Ec 12:1.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: youth(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.28/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַן יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ בִּן־נ֗וּן מְשָׁרֵ֥ת מֹשֶׁ֛ה מִבְּחֻרָ֖יו וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֲדֹנִ֥י מֹשֶׁ֖ה כְּלָאֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Joshua the.son of.Nun the.servant of.Moses from youth(s) his and he.said my.lord my Moses restrain them

*JPS 1917:* And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up, answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d7_5bb_5e8_5b4_5d9_5dd/): 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).