Strong's #5500: cheirotoneo (pronounced khi-rot-on-eh'-o)

from a comparative of 5495 and teino (to stretch); to be a hand-reacher or voter (by raising the hand), i.e. (generally) to select or appoint:--choose, ordain.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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cheirotoneō

1) to vote by stretching out the hand

2) to create or appoint by vote: one to have charge of some office or duty

3) to elect, create, appoint

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from a comparative of G5495 and teino (to stretch)

Citing in TDNT: 9:437, 1309

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Acts 14:23: "And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with"
2 Corinthians 8:19: "that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with"