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:
2 Chronicles 7:16: "For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be"
2 Chronicles 11:1: "a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, against"
2 Chronicles 12:13: "in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes"
2 Chronicles 13:3: "even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam"
2 Chronicles 13:3: "against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor."
2 Chronicles 13:17: "of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men."
2 Chronicles 25:5: "old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth"
2 Chronicles 29:11: "negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister"
2 Chronicles 33:7: "house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel,"
Nehemiah 1:9: "and will bring the place that I have chosen to set my name"
Nehemiah 9:7: "art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur"
Job 7:15: "So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
Job 9:14: "How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with"
Job 15:5: "thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty."
Job 29:25: " I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as"
Job 34:4: " Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good."
Job 34:33: "it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak"
Job 36:21: "regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction."
Psalms 25:12: "the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose."
Psalms 33:12: "God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance."
Psalms 47:4: " He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved."
Psalms 65:4: "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,"
Psalms 78:67: "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
Psalms 78:68: " But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which"
Psalms 78:70: " He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:"
Psalms 84:10: "in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,"
Psalms 105:26: "his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen."
Psalms 119:30: " I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid"
Psalms 119:173: "thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts."
Psalms 132:13: "For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation."
Psalms 135:4: "For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure."
Proverbs 1:29: "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:"
Proverbs 3:31: "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."
Proverbs 8:10: "and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. rather than choice gold."
Proverbs 8:19: "than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver."
Proverbs 10:20: "The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth."
Proverbs 16:16: "than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!"
Proverbs 21:3: "To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice."
Proverbs 22:1: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver"
Song of Solomon 5:15: "of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars."
Isaiah 1:29: "ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen."
Isaiah 7:15: "that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good."
Isaiah 7:16: "shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou"
Isaiah 14:1: "on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land:"
Isaiah 40:20: "He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning"
Isaiah 41:8: "art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend."
Isaiah 41:9: "thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away."
Isaiah 41:24: "are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooseth"
Isaiah 43:10: "the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand"
Isaiah 44:1: "O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:"
