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

21. Deuteronomy 14:24 יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee;

22. Deuteronomy 14:25 יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:

23. Deuteronomy 15:20 יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.

24. Deuteronomy 16:2 יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

25. Deuteronomy 16:6 יִבְחַ֨ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

26. Deuteronomy 16:7 יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

27. Deuteronomy 16:11 יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

28. Deuteronomy 16:15 יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

29. Deuteronomy 16:16 יִבְחָ֔ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:

30. Deuteronomy 17:8 יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;

31. Deuteronomy 17:10 יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee:

32. Deuteronomy 17:15 יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

33. Deuteronomy 18:5 בָּחַ֛ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever.

34. Deuteronomy 18:6 יִבְחַ֥ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

35. Deuteronomy 21:5 בָּחַ֞ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

36. Deuteronomy 23:16 יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

37. Deuteronomy 26:2 יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

38. Deuteronomy 30:19 וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ u.va.char.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

39. Deuteronomy 31:11 יִבְחָ֑ר yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

40. Joshua 8:3 וַיִּבְחַ֣ר vai.yiv.Char · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

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