Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H970: בָּחוּר (bâchûwr) Definition

Strong's number
H970
Lemma
בָּחוּר
Transliteration
bâchûwr
Pronunciation
baw-khoor'
Strong's definition
properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective) (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole. or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר);

45 instances of the word בָּחוּר bâchûwr (H970)


  • Jeremiah 9:21 - is come up For death into our windows and is entered into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets

  • Jeremiah 11:22 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will punish them the young men shall die by the sword their sons and their daughters shall die by famine

  • Jeremiah 15:8 - are increased Their widows to me above the sand of the seas I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly upon the city and terrors

  • Jeremiah 18:21 - Therefore deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the force by the sword and let their wives be bereaved of their children and be widows be put to death let their young men be slain by the sword in battle

  • Jeremiah 31:13 - rejoice Then shall the virgin in the dance both young men and old together for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort rejoice from their sorrow

  • Jeremiah 48:15 - is spoiled Moab out of her cities and gone up and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter saith the King is the LORD of hosts whose name

  • Jeremiah 49:26 - shall fall Therefore her young men in her streets of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD of hosts

  • Jeremiah 50:30 - fall Therefore shall her young men in the streets of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 51:3 - Against him that bendeth Against him that bendeth Against him that bendeth 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

  • Jeremiah 51:22 - With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman With thee also will I break in pieces old and young With thee also will I break in pieces the young man and the maid

  • Joel 2:28 - And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh shall prophesy and your sons and your daughters your old men shall dream dreams your young men visions shall see

  • Judges 14:10 - went down So his father unto the woman made and Samson there a feast made for so used the young men

  • Judges 20:15 - were numbered And the children of Benjamin at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of Gibeah were numbered seven hundred men

  • Lamentations 1:15 - hath trodden under foot all my mighty The Lord men in the midst of me he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men as in a winepress hath trodden The Lord the virgin the daughter of Judah

  • Lamentations 1:18 - is righteous The LORD against his commandment for I have rebelled hear I pray you all people and behold my sorrow my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity

  • Lamentations 2:21 - lie on the ground in the streets The young and the old my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger thou hast killed and not pitied

  • Lamentations 5:13 - the young men to grind They took and the children under the wood fell

  • Lamentations 5:14 - The elders from the gate have ceased the young men from their musick

  • Proverbs 20:29 - The glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is the gray head

  • Psalms 78:31 - The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest the chosen men of Israel of them and smote down