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

  • 2 Samuel 6:1 NASB
    Now David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
  • 2 Samuel 6:21 NASB
    So David said to Michal, "[It was] before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel; therefore I will celebrate before the LORD.
  • 2 Samuel 10:9 NASB
    Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him in front and in the rear, he selected from all the choice men of Israel, and arrayed [them] against the Arameans.
  • 2 Samuel 15:15 NASB
    Then the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants [are ready to do] whatever my lord the king chooses."
  • 2 Samuel 16:18 NASB
    Then Hushai said to Absalom, "No! For whom the LORD, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.
  • 2 Samuel 17:1 NASB
    Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.
  • 2 Samuel 19:38 NASB
    The king answered, "Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you require of me, I will do for you."
  • 2 Samuel 24:12 NASB
    "Go and speak to David, 'Thus the LORD says, "I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you."'"
  • 1 Reinan 3:8 NASB
    "Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
  • 1 Reinan 8:16 NASB
    'Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel [in which] to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.'
  • 1 Reinan 8:44 NASB
    "When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,
  • 1 Reinan 8:48 NASB
    if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;
  • 1 Reinan 11:13 NASB
    "However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, [but] I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
  • 1 Reinan 11:32 NASB
    (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),
  • 1 Reinan 11:34 NASB
    'Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes;
  • 1 Reinan 11:36 NASB
    'But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.
  • 1 Reinan 12:21 NASB
    Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
  • 1 Reinan 14:21 NASB
    Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
  • 1 Reinan 18:23 NASB
    "Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire [under it]; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire [under it].
  • 1 Reinan 18:25 NASB
    So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire [under it]."