Strong's #4005: mibchar (pronounced mib-khawr')
from 977; select, i.e. best:--choice(-st), chosen.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mibchâr
1) choicest, best
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H977
Usage:
This word is used 11 times:
Genesis 23:6: "art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead;"
Exodus 15:4: "and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen also are drowned in the Red sea."
Deuteronomy 12:11: "and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:"
Isaiah 37:24: "and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border,"
Jeremiah 22:7: "thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire."
Jeremiah 48:15: "is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men to the slaughter, saith"
Ezekiel 23:7: "her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men and with all on whom"
Ezekiel 24:4: "and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones."
Ezekiel 24:5: "Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones it, and make it boil"
Ezekiel 31:16: "them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon,"
Daniel 11:15: "of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand."