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# בַּחֻרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H980

**Bahurim** — used 5 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

Bahurim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/980/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּחֻרִים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/980/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (young men’s village) of a small town of Benjamin beyond the Mt. of Olives on the way to Jericho (cf. RobBR i. 433; Kasteren ZPV 1890, 100 ff.) 2 S 3:16; 16:5; 17:18; 19:17 1 K 2:8 (= עַלְמוֹן according to 𝔗 Jon Schwarz Marti-Schick ZPV iii. 8 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Bahurim (5).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 19:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.19.17/#tree)

וַיְמַהֵ֗ר שִׁמְעִ֤י בֶן־גֵּרָא֙ בֶּן־הַיְמִינִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר מִבַּֽחוּרִ֑ים וַיֵּ֙רֶד֙ עִם־אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדָ֔ה לִקְרַ֖את הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ דָּוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.hurried Shimei the.son of.Gera the.Ben- (the) jaminite who \[was\].from Bahurim and he.came.down with the.man of.Judah to meet the king David

*JPS 1917:* And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, made haste and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

[2 Samuel 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.16/#tree)

וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ אִתָּ֜הּ אִישָׁ֗הּ הָל֧וֹךְ וּבָכֹ֛ה אַחֲרֶ֖יהָ עַד־בַּֽחֻרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלָ֥יו אַבְנֵ֛ר לֵ֥ךְ שׁ֖וּב וַיָּשֹֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and he.went with her husband her going and weeping after her to Bahurim and he.said to him Abner go return and he.returned

*JPS 1917:* And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him: 'Go, return'; and he returned.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/980/): 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).