Strong's #977: bachar (pronounced baw-khar')
a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select:--acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bâchar
1) to choose, elect, decide for
1a) (Qal) to choose
1b) (Niphal) to be chosen
1c) (Pual) to be chosen, selected
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 169 times:
1 Samuel 12:13: "therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD"
1 Samuel 13:2: "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were"
1 Samuel 16:8: "Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this."
1 Samuel 16:9: "And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this."
1 Samuel 16:10: "Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen"
1 Samuel 17:40: "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of"
1 Samuel 20:30: "I know that thou hast chosen of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion"
1 Samuel 24:2: "took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,"
1 Samuel 26:2: "of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek"
2 Samuel 6:1: "gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand."
2 Samuel 6:21: "It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all"
2 Samuel 10:9: "against him before and behind, he chose of all"
2 Samuel 10:9: "him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel,"
2 Samuel 15:15: "are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint."
2 Samuel 16:18: "and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide."
2 Samuel 17:1: "unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men,"
2 Samuel 19:38: "that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of"
2 Samuel 24:12: "I offer thee three things; choose thee one of"
1 Kings 3:8: "is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot"
1 Kings 8:16: "Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all"
1 Kings 8:16: "to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be"
1 Kings 8:44: "the LORD toward the city thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built"
1 Kings 8:48: "thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built"
1 Kings 11:13: "for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen."
1 Kings 11:32: "for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all"
1 Kings 11:34: "the days of his life for David my servant's sake, I chose,"
1 Kings 11:36: "before me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen me to put my name there."
1 Kings 12:21: "a hundred and fourscore chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against"
1 Kings 14:21: "in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes"
1 Kings 18:23: "Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay"
1 Kings 18:25: "said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first;"
2 Kings 21:7: "house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel,"
2 Kings 23:27: "city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said,"
1 Chronicles 15:2: "but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen the ark"
1 Chronicles 19:10: "was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice"
1 Chronicles 19:10: "him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array"
1 Chronicles 21:10: "the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them,"
1 Chronicles 28:4: "Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father"
1 Chronicles 28:4: "over Israel forever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house"
1 Chronicles 28:5: "the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit"
1 Chronicles 28:6: "my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father."
1 Chronicles 28:10: "now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong,"
1 Chronicles 29:1: "my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be"
2 Chronicles 6:6: " But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be"
2 Chronicles 6:6: "that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people"
2 Chronicles 6:34: "this which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;"
2 Chronicles 6:38: "thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built"
2 Chronicles 7:12: "unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house"
