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Lamentations 5:13
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בָּחוּרbâchûwr · baw-khoor'
H970 · Hebrew
H970 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
- Derivation
- or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977 (בָּחַר);
- KJV renderings
- (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.
- Grammar
- בַּחוּרִים֙ — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 46 times in the Hebrew Bible.Deuteronomy 32:25Judges 14:10Ruth 3:101 Samuel 8:161 Samuel 9:2
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בָּחוּר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.