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youth

Meaning of “youth”

Sense 1: The period of life following childhood and preceding mature age. Sense 2: A young person or young people.

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70 occurrences66 verses24 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 8:21

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Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Malachi 2:15 · retained source text

And did not he make one? yet had he the residue of the spirit: and wherefore one? that hee might seeke a godly seed: therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deale treacherously against the wife of his youth.

1611 marginal noteOr, excellencie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a seed of God.

1611 marginal noteOr, vnfaithfully.

Matthew 19:20
The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Matthew 19:20 · retained source text

The young man saith vnto him, All these things haue I kept from my youth vp: what lacke I yet?

Mark 10:20
And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 10:20 · retained source text

And hee answered, and saide vnto him, Master, all these haue I obserued from my youth.

Luke 18:21
And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 18:21 · retained source text

And he said, All these haue I kept from my youth vp.

Acts 26:4
My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 26:4 · retained source text

My maner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine owne nation at Hierusalem, know all the Iewes,

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Timothy 4:12 · retained source text

Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie.

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