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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

Renderings

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171 occurrences in 163 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:5

    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

    בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur “chosen [man]”

  2. 2 Chronicles 29:11

    My sons, be not now negligent; for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before Him, to minister unto Him, and that ye should be His ministers, and offer unto Him.'

    בָּחַ֣ר ba.Char “he has chosen”

  3. 2 Chronicles 33:7

    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;

    בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙ ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  4. Nehemiah 1:9

    but if ye return unto Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though your dispersed were in the uttermost part of the heaven, 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.

    בָּחַ֔רְתִּי ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  5. Nehemiah 9:7

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

    בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙ ba.Char.ta “you chose”

  6. Job 7:15

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

    וַתִּבְחַ֣ר (תִּבְחַ֣ר) tiv.Char “it chose”

  7. Job 9:14

    How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?

    אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה 'ev.cha.Rah “I will choose”

  8. Job 15:5

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

    וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר (תִבְחַ֗ר) tiv.Char “you may choose”

  9. Job 29:25

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

    אֶֽבֲחַ֣ר 'e.va.Char “I chose”

  10. Job 34:4

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

    נִבְחֲרָה־ niv.cha.rah- “let us choose”

  11. Job 34:33

    Shall His recompense be as thou wilt? For thou loathest it, so that thou must choose, and not I; therefore speak what thou knowest.

    תִבְחַ֣ר tiv.Char “you will choose”

  12. Job 36:21

    Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

    בָּחַ֥רְתָּ ba.Char.ta “you have chosen”

  13. Psalms 25:12

    What man is he that feareth the LORD? him will He instruct in the way that He should choose.

    יִבְחָֽר׃ yiv.Char “[which] he will choose”

  14. Psalms 33:12

    Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.

    בָּחַ֖ר ba.Char “[which] he has chosen”

  15. Psalms 47:5

    He chooseth our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob whom He loveth. Selah

    יִבְחַר־ yiv.char- “he chooses”

  16. Psalms 65:5

    Happy is the man whom Thou choosest, and bringest near, that he may dwell in Thy courts; may we be satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, the holy place of Thy temple!

    תִּֽבְחַ֣ר tiv.Char “[is [the] one whom] you choose”

  17. Psalms 78:67

    Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

    בָחָֽר׃ va.Char “he chose”

  18. Psalms 78:68

    But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.

    וַ֭יִּבְחַר (יִּבְחַר) i.yiv.char “he chose”

  19. Psalms 78:70

    He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

    וַ֭יִּבְחַר (יִּבְחַר) i.yiv.char “he chose”

  20. Psalms 84:11

    For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

    בָּחַ֗רְתִּי ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  21. Psalms 89:20

    Then Thou spokest in vision to Thy godly ones, and saidst: 'I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

    בָח֣וּר va.Chur “a chosen [one]”

  22. Psalms 105:26

    He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

    בָּֽחַר־ ba.char- “he had chosen”

  23. Psalms 119:30

    I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.

    בָחָ֑רְתִּי va.Cha.re.ti “I have chosen”

  24. Psalms 119:173

    Let Thy hand be ready to help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts.

    בָחָֽרְתִּי׃ va.Cha.re.ti “I have chosen”

  25. Psalms 132:13

    For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:

    בָחַ֣ר va.Char “he has chosen”