בָּחוּר bâchûwr — properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)
Translated in the KJV as young, chosen, × hole.
or בָּחֻר; participle passive of H977; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective).
bâchûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 2
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›