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;
Job 15:5 - uttereth thine iniquity For thy mouth and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty
Job 29:25 - I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army the mourners as one that comforteth
Job 34:4 - to us judgment Let us choose let us know among ourselves what is good
Job 34:33 - Should it be according to thy mind he will recompense it whether thou refuse it whether thou refuse or whether thou choose what thou knowest and not I therefore speak
Job 36:21 - Take heed regard not iniquity for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction
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
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
Joshua 24:15 - whom served the LORD choose you this day unto you served or the gods served which your fathers that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites ye dwell in whose land but as for me and my house served the LORD
Joshua 24:22 - him And they said And Joshua unto the people We are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD to serve him And they said We are witnesses
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
Judges 10:14 - and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation
Judges 20:16 - Among all this people there were seven hundred men chosen lefthanded every one could sling stones at an hair breadth and not miss
Judges 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel and the battle was sore but they knew was near not that evil
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
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
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
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
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
Proverbs 1:29 - For that they hated knowledge the fear of the LORD and did not choose
Proverbs 3:31 - Envy thou not the oppressor and choose none of his ways