H977 Definition

Strong's number
H977
Lemma
בָּחַר
Transliteration
bâchar
Pronunciation
baw-khar'
Strong's definition
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require. a primitive root;

163 instances of the word בָּחַר bâchar (H977)

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  • 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

  • Zechariah 1:17 - Cry Thus saith Thus saith and the LORD of hosts shall yet be spread abroad My cities through prosperity shall yet comfort and the LORD Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem

  • Isaiah 1:29 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen

  • Proverbs 1:29 - For that they hated knowledge the fear of the LORD and did not choose

  • Zechariah 2:12 - shall inherit And the LORD Judah his portion land in the holy and shall choose Jerusalem

  • Haggai 2:23 - In that day saith the LORD of hosts will I take thee O Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel my servant saith the LORD and will make thee as a signet for I have chosen saith the LORD of hosts

  • Haggai 2:23 - In that day saith the LORD of hosts will I take thee O Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel my servant saith the LORD and will make thee as a signet for I have chosen saith the LORD of hosts

  • 1 Samuel 2:28 - And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest to offer upon mine altar to burn incense to wear an ephod before me and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel

  • Zechariah 3:2 - said And the LORD thee O Satan rebuke And the LORD thee O Satan rebuke And the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire

  • 1 Kings 3:8 - And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen of thy people a great that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude

  • Proverbs 3:31 - Envy thou not the oppressor and choose none of his ways

  • Deuteronomy 4:37 - And because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight power with his mighty out of Egypt

  • Judges 5:8 - They chose gods new then was war in the gates was there a shield seen or spear among forty thousand in Israel

  • Song of Solomon 5:15 - His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as Lebanon excellent as the cedars

  • 2 Samuel 6:1 - Again David all the chosen men of Israel thirty thousand

  • Genesis 6:2 - saw That the sons of God the daughters of men were fair that they and they took them wives of all which they chose

  • 2 Chronicles 6:5 - Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes Israel to build an house in that my name I chose I any man to be a ruler my people Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 6:6 - But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name But I have chosen David to be over my people Israel

  • 2 Samuel 6:21 - said And David unto Michal It was before of the LORD which chose me before thy father and before all his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD over Israel therefore will I play It was before of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 6:34 - go out If thy people to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them and they pray by the way this city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name

  • 2 Chronicles 6:38 - If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity whither they have carried them captives and pray toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers and toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house which I have built for thy name

  • Deuteronomy 7:6 - people For thou art an holy the LORD thy God hath chosen the LORD thy God people thee to be a special people that are upon the face of the earth

  • Deuteronomy 7:7 - you because ye were more in number than any people did not set his love The LORD upon you nor choose for ye were the fewest in number than any people

  • 2 Chronicles 7:12 - appeared And the LORD to Solomon by night and said unto him I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice

  • Isaiah 7:15 - Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good

  • Job 7:15 - chooseth strangling So that my soul and death rather than my life

  • 2 Chronicles 7:16 - For now have I chosen and sanctified this house that my name may be there for ever and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually

  • Isaiah 7:16 - shall know For before the child to refuse the evil and choose the good forsaken the land that thou abhorrest shall be of both her kings

  • Jeremiah 8:3 - shall be chosen And death rather than life by all the residue of them that remain family of this evil in all the places of them that remain whither I have driven them saith the LORD of hosts

  • Joshua 8:3 - arose So Joshua and all the people of war to go up against Ai chose out So Joshua thirty thousand men mighty of valour and sent them away by night

  • Proverbs 8:10 - Receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge gold rather than choice

  • 1 Kings 8:16 - Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes Israel to build an house that my ~ I chose David my people Israel

  • 1 Samuel 8:18 - And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen will not hear you and the LORD in that day

  • Proverbs 8:19 - is better My fruit than gold yea than fine gold and my revenue silver than choice

  • 1 Kings 8:44 - go out If thy people to battle against their enemy toward thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy ~

  • 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away captive and pray unto thee toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy ~

  • Ecclesiastes 9:4 - For for a living to him that is there is hope dog for a living is better lion than a dead

  • 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

  • Job 9:14 - How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words

  • Joshua 9:27 - made And Joshua even unto this day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD even unto this day in the place which he should choose

  • 2 Samuel 10:9 - saw When Joab that the front of the battle that the front and behind he chose he chose men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians

  • Judges 10:14 - and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation

  • Deuteronomy 10:15 - in thy fathers had a delight Only the LORD to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day

  • Proverbs 10:20 - silver is as choice The tongue of the just the heart of the wicked is little worth

  • 1 Samuel 10:24 - and said And Samuel And all the people See hath chosen ye him whom the LORD And all the people shouted And all the people and said God save the king

  • 2 Chronicles 11:1 - was come And when Rehoboam to Jerusalem he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against Israel again the kingdom And when Rehoboam

  • 1 Kings 11:13 - Howbeit all the kingdom I will not rend away tribe one but will give to thy son for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen

  • 1 Kings 11:32 - out of all the tribes But he shall have one for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel

  • 1 Kings 11:34 - Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand him prince but I will make all the days of his life for David my servant's sake whom I chose because he kept my commandments and my statutes

  • 1 Kings 11:36 - And unto his son will I give tribe one may have a light that David my servant alway before me in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen me to put my ~

  • Deuteronomy 12:5 - But unto the place shall choose which the LORD your God out of all your tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither thou shalt come

  • Deuteronomy 12:11 - Then there shall be a place shall choose unto the LORD your God to dwell to cause his name there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 12:13 - Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired hath set and behold the LORD Now therefore behold the king

  • 2 Chronicles 12:13 - strengthened So king Rehoboam himself in Jerusalem and he reigned old and forty was one years Rehoboam and he reigned seventeen years and he reigned himself in Jerusalem the city had chosen which the LORD to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel his name there And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess

  • Deuteronomy 12:14 - But in the place shall choose which the LORD in one of thy tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command

  • Deuteronomy 12:18 - before the LORD thy God But thou must eat in the place shall choose the LORD thy God thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the Levite that is within thy gates and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands

  • Deuteronomy 12:21 - there be too far If the place hath chosen which the LORD thy God to put his name from thee then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock hath given which the LORD thee as I have commanded thee and thou shalt eat in thy gates lusteth after whatsoever thy soul

  • 1 Kings 12:21 - was come And when Rehoboam to Jerusalem he assembled against the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men which were warriors to fight against the house of Israel again the kingdom And when Rehoboam the son of Solomon

  • Deuteronomy 12:26 - Only thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows thou shalt take and go unto the place shall choose which the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 13:2 - chose Saul him three and a thousand men of Israel Saul and a thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent

  • 2 Chronicles 13:3 - in array And Abijah also set the battle of valour being mighty men also set the battle even four hundred thousand men chosen Jeroboam in array also set the battle against him with eight hundred thousand men chosen being mighty men of valour

  • Genesis 13:11 - chose Then Lot him all the plain of Jordan journeyed Then Lot east and they separated themselves the one from the other

  • 2 Chronicles 13:17 - slew And Abijah and his people slaughter them with a great so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand men chosen

  • Isaiah 14:1 - will have mercy For the LORD of Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land shall be joined and the strangers with them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob

  • Deuteronomy 14:2 - people For thou art an holy and the LORD thy God hath chosen and the LORD people thee to be a peculiar people that are upon the earth

  • Exodus 14:7 - And he took six hundred and all the chariots chosen and all the chariots of Egypt and captains

  • 1 Kings 14:21 - And Rehoboam old of Solomon and he reigned in Judah old was forty and one years And Rehoboam and he reigned seventeen years and he reigned in Jerusalem the city did choose which the LORD to put his ~ out of all the tribes of Israel his ~ there And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess

  • Deuteronomy 14:23 - And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose to place his name there the tithe of thy corn of thy wine and of thine oil and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always

  • Deuteronomy 14:24 - for thee so that be too long And if the way for thee so that thou art not able to carry for thee so that be too far it or if the place shall choose from thee which the LORD thy God to set his name for thee so that hath blessed from thee which the LORD thy God

  • Deuteronomy 14:25 - Then shalt thou turn it into money and bind up it into money in thine hand and shalt go unto the place shall choose which the LORD thy God

  • 1 Chronicles 15:2 - said Then David None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites chosen for them hath the LORD None ought to carry the ark for them hath the LORD and to minister unto him for ever

  • Job 15:5 - uttereth thine iniquity For thy mouth and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty

  • 2 Samuel 15:15 - said Behold thy servants And the king's And the king's shall appoint are ready to do whatsoever my lord And the king's Behold thy servants

  • Deuteronomy 15:20 - it before the LORD thy God Thou shalt eat by year by year in the place shall choose the LORD thou and thy household

  • Deuteronomy 16:2 - Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God of the flock and the herd in the place shall choose unto the LORD to place his name

  • Numbers 16:5 - And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company saying Even to morrow will shew the LORD who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen and will cause him to come near

  • Deuteronomy 16:6 - But at the place shall choose which the LORD thy God to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the going down of the sun at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt

  • Deuteronomy 16:7 - And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place shall choose which the LORD thy God and thou shalt turn in the morning and go unto thy tents

  • Numbers 16:7 - And put therein fire and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow and it shall be that the man doth choose the LORD he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi

  • 1 Samuel 16:8 - called Then Jesse Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel And he said chosen Neither hath the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 16:9 - to pass by Then Jesse made Shammah And he said chosen Neither hath the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 16:10 - to pass Again Jesse made seven of his sons before And Samuel said And Samuel Again Jesse hath not chosen The LORD

  • Deuteronomy 16:11 - And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy maidservant and the Levite that is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow that are among you in the place hath chosen the LORD thy God to place his name

  • Deuteronomy 16:15 - Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast because the LORD thy God in the place shall choose because the LORD shall bless because the LORD thy God thee in all thine increase and in all the works of thine hands therefore thou shalt surely rejoice

  • Deuteronomy 16:16 - Three times in a year and they shall not appear shall all thy males before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose and in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the LORD empty

  • Proverbs 16:16 - and to get wisdom How much better than gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver

  • 2 Samuel 16:18 - said And Hushai unto Absalom choose Nay but whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel his will I be and with him will I abide

  • 2 Samuel 17:1 - said Moreover Ahithophel unto Absalom Let me now choose out twelve thousand men and I will arise and pursue after David this night

  • Numbers 17:5 - And it shall come to pass that the man's whom I shall choose rod shall blossom and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel whereby they murmur

  • Deuteronomy 17:8 - too hard If there arise a matter for thee in judgment and blood and blood and plea and plea and between stroke and between stroke If there arise a matter of controversy within thy gates then shalt thou arise and get thee up into the place shall choose which the LORD thy God

  • Exodus 17:9 - said And Moses unto Joshua Choose us out and go out fight with Amalek to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand

  • Deuteronomy 17:10 - And thou shalt do according to the sentence shall shew which they of that place shall choose which the LORD thee and thou shalt observe And thou shalt do according to all that they inform

  • Deuteronomy 17:15 - Thou shalt in any wise Thou shalt in any wise him king shall choose over thee whom the LORD thy God one from among over thee which is not thy brother Thou shalt in any wise him king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother

  • 1 Samuel 17:40 - And he took his staff in his hand and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook and put bag them in a shepherd's which he had even in a scrip and his sling in his hand and he drew near to the Philistine

  • Deuteronomy 18:5 - hath chosen For the LORD thy God him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name For the LORD him and his sons for ever

  • Deuteronomy 18:6 - and come And if a Levite from any of thy gates out of all Israel where he sojourned and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place shall choose which the LORD

  • 1 Kings 18:23 - Let them therefore give us two bullock and let them choose bullock one for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on wood no fire and lay under and I will dress bullock one Let them therefore give it on wood no fire and lay

  • Exodus 18:25 - chose And Moses men able out of all Israel and made them heads over the people and rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds and rulers of fifties and rulers of tens

  • 1 Kings 18:25 - said And Elijah unto the prophets of Baal Choose bullock you one for yourselves and dress it first for ye are many and call on the ~ of your gods no fire but put

  • 1 Chronicles 19:10 - saw Now when Joab was set against him before that the battle was set against him before and behind he chose out he chose out of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians

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