Word

בְּחֻרוֹת

bᵉchurôwth · H979 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

youth

Stage when humans are young, fully grown, and still unmarried; associated with joy and strength

Examples
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years approach when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ךָyour 2
הוּhis 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

יוֹםday, time 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 2 words

צְעִירָה tsᵉʻîyrâh · H6812 · little, youth, youthfulness: Both lexemes denote youth or the young stage of life, overlapping in sense as near-synonyms (both can substitute in contexts referring to youth/young persons).
יַלְדוּת yaldûwth · H3208 · youth: Both words denote periods or states of youth and young age, and can substitute in contexts describing early life stages.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Stage002001001060: The word denotes the stage of life called youth, as Joshua is described 'from his youth' as Moses' servant in Numbers 11:28, fitting this domain's sense of a life stage.
Young002001001073: It names youthfulness itself, as Qoheleth urges the young man to rejoice 'during your childhood... during the days of young manhood' in Ecclesiastes 11:9, fitting this domain's core sense of being young.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּחַר bâchar · H977 · to choose, to prefer, choice · 171×בָּחוּר bâchûwr · H970 · young man · 44×בָּחִיר bâchîyr · H972 · chosen, elect · 13×מִבְחָר mibchâr · H4005 · choice, picked, to be preferred · 12×בְּחֻרוֹתbᵉchurôwth · H979מִבְחוֹר mibchôwr · H4004 · choice, picked, to be preferred · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H979. bechurim or bechuroth [בְּחוּרִים] noun feminine abstract plural youth, plural…

H979. bechurim
or bechuroth [בְּחוּרִים] noun feminine abstract plural youth, plural suffix בְּחֻרָיו Num 11:28 (J; Onk ᵑ6 Ges De Di; ᵑ9 ⅏ ᵐ5 בחיריו Luth Ke); בְּחוּרוֺתֶיךָ Ecc 11:9, בְּחוּרֹתֶיךָ Ecc 12:1.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Stage2 occurrences Young1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0