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

101. 2 Chronicles 7:12 וּבָחַ֜רְתִּי u.va.Char.ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

     And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

102. 2 Chronicles 7:16 בָּחַ֤רְתִּי ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

     For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

103. 2 Chronicles 11:1 בָּח֖וּר ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

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

104. 2 Chronicles 12:13 בָּחַ֨ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

     So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for 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.

105. 2 Chronicles 13:3 בָּח֑וּר ס ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

     And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

106. 2 Chronicles 13:3 בָּח֖וּר ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

     And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

107. 2 Chronicles 13:17 בָּחֽוּר׃ ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

     And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

108. 2 Chronicles 25:5 בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

     Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

109. 2 Chronicles 29:11 בָּחַ֣ר ba.Char · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

     My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.

110. 2 Chronicles 33:7 בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙ ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

     And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

111. Nehemiah 1:9 בָּחַ֔רְתִּי ba.Char.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

     but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

112. Nehemiah 9:7 בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙ ba.Char.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

     Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,

113. Job 7:15 וַתִּבְחַ֣ר va.tiv.Char · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

     So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

114. Job 9:14 אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה 'ev.cha.Rah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

     How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?

115. Job 15:5 וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר ve.tiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

     For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

116. Job 29:25 אֶֽבֲחַ֣ר 'e.va.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

     I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

117. Job 34:4 נִבְחֲרָה־ niv.cha.rah- · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

     Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

118. Job 34:33 תִבְחַ֣ר tiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

     Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

119. Job 36:21 בָּחַ֥רְתָּ ba.Char.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

     Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

120. Psalms 25:12 יִבְחָֽר׃ yiv.Char · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

     What man is he that feareth Jehovah? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose.

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