Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H977

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: בָּחַר

Transliteration: baw-khar'

Definition: a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select

KJV Definition: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require

Verse usage

  • Yozue 9:27 NASB
    But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place which He would choose.
  • Yozue 24:15 NASB
    "If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
  • Yozue 24:22 NASB
    Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses."
  • Huesnan 5:8 NASB
    "New gods were chosen; Then war [was] in the gates. Not a shield or a spear was seen Among forty thousand in Israel.
  • Huesnan 10:14 NASB
    "Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."
  • Huesnan 20:15 NASB
    From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 choice men.
  • Huesnan 20:16 NASB
    Out of all these people 700 choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
  • Huesnan 20:34 NASB
    When ten thousand choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, the battle became fierce; but Benjamin did not know that disaster was close to them.
  • 1 Samuel 2:28 NASB
    'Did I [not] choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I [not] give to the house of your father all the fire [offerings] of the sons of Israel?
  • 1 Samuel 8:18 NASB
    "Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day."
  • 1 Samuel 10:24 NASB
    Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? Surely there is no one like him among all the people." So all the people shouted and said, "[Long] live the king!"
  • 1 Samuel 12:13 NASB
    "Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the LORD has set a king over you.
  • 1 Samuel 13:2 NASB
    Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.
  • 1 Samuel 16:8 NASB
    Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either."
  • 1 Samuel 16:9 NASB
    Next Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either."
  • 1 Samuel 16:10 NASB
    Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these."
  • 1 Samuel 17:40 NASB
    He took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in [his] pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.
  • 1 Samuel 20:30 NASB
    Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
  • 1 Samuel 24:2 NASB
    Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
  • 1 Samuel 26:2 NASB
    So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.