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

  • Isaias 41:9 NASB
    You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts And said to you, 'You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.
  • Isaias 41:24 NASB
    Behold, you are of no account, And your work amounts to nothing; He who chooses you is an abomination.
  • Isaias 43:10 NASB
    "You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.
  • Isaias 44:1 NASB
    "But now listen, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen:
  • Isaias 44:2 NASB
    Thus says the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you, 'Do not fear, O Jacob My servant; And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
  • Isaias 48:10 NASB
    "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
  • Isaias 49:7 NASB
    Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel [and] its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, "Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You."
  • Isaias 56:4 NASB
    For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,
  • Isaias 58:5 NASB
    "Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?
  • Isaias 58:6 NASB
    "Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?
  • Isaias 65:12 NASB
    I will destine you for the sword, And all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear. And you did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."
  • Isaias 66:3 NASB
    "[But] he who kills an ox is [like] one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is [like] the one who breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering [is like one who offers] swine's blood; He who burns incense is [like] the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their [own] ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,
  • Isaias 66:4 NASB
    So I will choose their punishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight."
  • Yeremias 8:3 NASB
    "And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them," declares the LORD of hosts.
  • Yeremias 33:24 NASB
    "Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.
  • Yeremias 49:19 NASB
    "Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court]? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"
  • Yeremias 50:44 NASB
    "Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me [into court]? And who then is the shepherd who can stand before Me?"
  • Ezikiel 20:5 NASB
    and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,
  • Hagai 2:23 NASB
    'On that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant,' declares the LORD, 'and I will make you like a signet [ring], for I have chosen you,'" declares the LORD of hosts.
  • Zakarias 1:17 NASB
    "Again, proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem."'"