H970 בָּחוּר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 44 KJV occurrences
בָּחוּר
bâchûwr · baw-khoor'
Definition
properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
KJV Renderings
(choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.
Derivation / Etymology
or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 44)
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- 2 Kings 8:12And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
- Proverbs 20:29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
- Isaiah 40:30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 51:3Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
- Lamentations 5:14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
- Ezekiel 30:17The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.