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)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
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Jeremiah 8:3 וְנִבְחַ֥ר ve.niv.Char · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.
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Jeremiah 33:24 בָּחַ֧ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
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Jeremiah 49:19 בָח֖וּר va.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?
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Jeremiah 50:44 בָח֖וּר va.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject
Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
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