בַּחֻרִיםBachurîym
Bachurim, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: bakh-oo-reem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H980
Meanings
proper name [of a location]: of a small town of Benjamin beyond the Mt. of Olives on the way to Jericho (2 Samuel 3:16; 2 Samuel 16:5; 2 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 19:17; 1 Kings 2:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 3:16 Palti followed along behind her as far as Bahurim, weeping as he went. Then Abner told him, “Go back home!” So Palti returned.
- 2 Samuel 16:5 As King David came to Bahurim, a man came out of the village cursing them. It was Shimei son of Gera, from the same clan as Saul’s family.
- 2 Samuel 17:18 But a boy spotted them at En-rogel, and he told Absalom about it. So they quickly escaped to Bahurim, where a man hid them down inside a well in his courtyard.
- 2 Samuel 19:16 Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin, hurried across with the men of Judah to welcome King David.
- 1 Kings 2:8 “And remember Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin. He cursed me with a terrible curse as I was fleeing to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, I swore by the Lord that I would not kill him.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).