בָּחַר

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select; acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. 1 Kings 3:8 בָּחָ֑רְתָּ ba.Cha.re.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

   And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

2. 1 Kings 8:16 בָחַ֣רְתִּי va.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

3. 1 Kings 8:16 וָאֶבְחַ֣ר va.'ev.Char · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

   Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

4. 1 Kings 8:44 בָּחַ֣רְתָּ ba.Char.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

   If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Jehovah toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name;

5. 1 Kings 8:48 בָּחַ֔רְתָּ ba.Char.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

   if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

6. 1 Kings 11:13 בָּחָֽרְתִּי׃ ba.Cha.re.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

7. 1 Kings 11:32 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

8. 1 Kings 11:34 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

9. 1 Kings 11:36 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

10. 1 Kings 12:21 בָּח֖וּר ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

11. 1 Kings 14:21 בָּחַ֨ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

12. 1 Kings 18:23 וְיִבְחֲר֣וּ ve.yiv.cha.Ru · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.

13. 1 Kings 18:25 בַּחֲר֨וּ ba.cha.Ru · A command to all of you: simple action

    And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.