בָּחַר

ba.char · to choose

Hebrew · Strong's H977 · Verb · Sounds like: baw-khar' · 171 occurrences

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)
בָּחַר vb. choose
Qal
1. with בְּ,
a. divine choice
b. man’s choice
2. with אֲשֶׁר:
a. divine choice
b. man’s choice
3. with acc. & לְ, choose some one or something for
4. with acc. and מִן, choose, select from
5. acc.
a. divine choice
b. man’s choice
6. with עַל, for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction
7. with לְ of acc. chosen
8. test, try
Niph. to be chosen
Pu. chosen, selected

Every occurrence

  1. Judges 5:8 יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

  2. Judges 10:14 בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם be.char.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

  3. Judges 20:15 בָּחֽוּר׃ ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  4. Judges 20:16 בָּח֔וּר ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

  5. Judges 20:34 בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.

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