Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

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;

163 instances of the word בָּחַר bâchar (H977)


  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 21:5 - shall come near And the priests the sons of Levi hath chosen for them the LORD thy God to minister unto him and to bless in the name for them the LORD and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke

  • Deuteronomy 23:16 - He shall dwell with thee even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best thou shalt not oppress

  • Deuteronomy 26:2 - That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee and shalt put it in a basket and shalt go unto the place shall choose that the LORD thy God to place his name

  • Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call this day heaven and earth life and death against you that I have set before blessing and cursing therefore choose life may live that both thou and thy seed

  • Deuteronomy 31:11 - is come When all Israel to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose thou shalt read this law When all Israel in their hearing

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 20:5 - And say And say the Lord GOD In the day when I chose Israel and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt and lifted up mine hand And say I am the LORD your God

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Isaiah 40:20 - He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation a tree that will not rot chooseth workman unto him a cunning he seeketh to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved