youth
be.chu.rot denotes the period of youth, whether remembered, enjoyed, or named in relation to Joshua.
The attested uses refer to youth as a period of life: Ecclesiastes addresses its days in calls to rejoice and remember the Creator, while Numbers identifies Joshua's service as beginning from his youth.
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Youth as a period of life · dominant
In Ecclesiastes 11:9, the construct plural form occurs in the call to rejoice and let the heart be glad before the verse speaks of judgment; in Ecclesiastes 12:1, it occurs before the coming days of distress and years without pleasure. In Numbers 11:28, the same construct plural form identifies Joshua as Moses' minister from his youth; the APB renders the verse in that way.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “youth” in all three verses, in phrases about its days in Ecclesiastes and Joshua's service from it in Numbers. These renderings confirm the verses' overall presentation rather than isolate each token.