Strong's #138: haireomai (pronounced hahee-reh'-om-ahee)

probably akin to 142; to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer:--choose. Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai hel'-lom-ahee; which is otherwise obsolete.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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aihreomai

1) to take for oneself, to prefer, choose

2) to choose by vote, elect to office

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: probably akin to G142

Citing in TDNT: 1:180, 27

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Philippians 1:22: "labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not."
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through"
Hebrews 11:25: " Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures"