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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. 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 hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.

    בָּחוּר֙ ba.Chur “chosen [man]”

  2. 2 Chronicles 29:11

    My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.

    בָּחַ֣ר ba.Char “he has chosen”

  3. 2 Chronicles 33:7

    He set the engraved 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 forever:

    בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙ ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  4. Nehemiah 1:9

    but if you return to 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 there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

    בָּחַ֔רְתִּי ba.Char.ti “I have chosen”

  5. Nehemiah 9:7

    You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

    בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙ ba.Char.ta “you chose”

  6. Job 7:15

    So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.

    וַתִּבְחַ֣ר (תִּבְחַ֣ר) tiv.Char “it chose”

  7. Job 9:14

    How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

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

  8. Job 15:5

    For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

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

  9. Job 29:25

    I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts 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 you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

    תִבְחַ֣ר tiv.Char “you will choose”

  12. Job 36:21

    Take heed, don't regard iniquity; For this you have chosen rather than affliction.

    בָּחַ֥רְתָּ ba.Char.ta “you have chosen”

  13. Psalms 25:12

    What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him 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 Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

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

  15. Psalms 47:4

    He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

    יִבְחַר־ yiv.char- “he chooses”

  16. Psalms 65:4

    Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, That he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, Your holy temple.

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

  17. Psalms 78:67

    Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, And didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

    בָחָֽר׃ va.Char “he chose”

  18. Psalms 78:68

    But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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

  19. Psalms 78:70

    He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

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

  20. Psalms 84:10

    For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would 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 you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from 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. I have set my heart on your law.

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

  24. Psalms 119:173

    Let your hand be ready to help me, For I have chosen your precepts.

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

  25. Psalms 132:13

    For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

    בָחַ֣ר va.Char “he has chosen”