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H0977בָּחַרba.char

to choosePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 3
  5. 31
  6. 4
  7. 5
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 12
  10. 9
  11. 13
  12. 2
  13. 10
  14. 16
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 2
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 7
  19. 14
  20. 8
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. 1
  23. 20
  24. 4
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 1
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. 1
  38. 3
  39. Malachi: 0

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171 occurrences in 163 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Deuteronomy 16:7

    You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

    יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  2. Deuteronomy 16:11

    and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

    יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “he will choose”

  3. Deuteronomy 16:15

    Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

    יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  4. Deuteronomy 16:16

    Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your 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 tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:

    יִבְחָ֔ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  5. Deuteronomy 17:8

    If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

    יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  6. Deuteronomy 17:10

    You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

    יִבְחַ֣ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  7. Deuteronomy 17:15

    you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

    יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  8. Deuteronomy 18:5

    For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.

    בָּחַ֛ר ba.Char “he has chosen”

  9. Deuteronomy 18:6

    If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;

    יִבְחַ֥ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  10. Deuteronomy 21:5

    The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

    בָּחַ֞ר ba.Char “he has chosen”

  11. Deuteronomy 23:16

    he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.

    יִבְחַ֛ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  12. Deuteronomy 26:2

    that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

    יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “he will choose”

  13. Deuteronomy 30:19

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

    וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ (בָֽחַרְתָּ֙) va.char.Ta “you will choose”

  14. Deuteronomy 31:11

    when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

    יִבְחָ֑ר yiv.Char “he will choose”

  15. Joshua 8:3

    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.

    וַיִּבְחַ֣ר (יִּבְחַ֣ר) i.yiv.Char “he chose”

  16. Joshua 9:27

    That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

    יִבְחָֽר׃ yiv.Char “he will choose”

  17. Joshua 24:15

    If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.

    בַּחֲר֨וּ ba.cha.Ru “choose”

  18. Joshua 24:22

    Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses.

    בְּחַרְתֶּ֥ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”

  19. Judges 5:8

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

    יִבְחַר֙ yiv.Char “it chose”

  20. Judges 10:14

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

    בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”

  21. Judges 20:15

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

    בָּחֽוּר׃ ba.Chur “chosen”

  22. Judges 20:16

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

    בָּח֔וּר ba.Chur “chosen”

  23. Judges 20:34

    There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

    בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur “chosen”

  24. 1 Samuel 2:28

    and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

    וּבָחֹ֣ר (בָחֹ֣ר) va.Chor “I chose”

  25. 1 Samuel 8:18

    You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.

    בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם be.char.Tem “you have chosen”