Strong's H977: בָּחַר (bâchar) 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;
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1 Samuel 20:30 - was kindled anger Then Saul's against Jonathan and he said the son of the perverse rebellious woman do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse and unto the confusion and unto the confusion nakedness of thy mother's
1 Samuel 24:2 - took Then Saul three thousand men chosen out of all Israel to seek David men upon the rocks of the wild goats
1 Samuel 26:2 - arose Then Saul and went down in the wilderness of Ziph having three thousand men chosen of Israel with him to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph
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 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
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
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
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
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