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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 King James Version.

  1. 2 Chronicles 25:5

    Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

    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 serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

    בָּחַ֣ר ba.Char “he has chosen”

  3. 2 Chronicles 33:7

    And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before 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 turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto 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 set my name 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 my life.

    וַתִּבְחַ֣ר (תִּבְחַ֣ר) tiv.Char “it chose”

  7. Job 9:14

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

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

  8. Job 15:5

    For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, 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 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 to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

  11. Job 34:33

    Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou 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 shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

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

  14. Psalms 33:12

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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

  15. Psalms 47:4

    He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

    יִבְחַר־ yiv.char- “he chooses”

  16. Psalms 65:4

    Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

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

  17. Psalms 78:67

    Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 84:10

    For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

    בָּחַ֗רְתִּי ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  21. Psalms 89:19

    Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, 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 truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

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

  24. Psalms 119:173

    Let thine hand 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”