בָּחַרbâchar
choose
Pronunciation: baw-khar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H977
Meanings
Qal: passive (Deuteronomy 7:6; Isaiah 41:24; Job 29:25)
1. with בְּ
a. divine choice (Nehemiah 9:7; Deuteronomy 7:7; Isaiah 44:1)
b. man's choice (Proverbs 3:31; Isaiah 66:3; Isaiah 7:15)
2. with אֲשֶׁר
a. divine choice (Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 43:10; 1 Kings 3:8)
b. man's choice (Deuteronomy 23:7; Isaiah 1:29; 1 Samuel 12:13)
3. with accusative & לְ
a. divine choice (1 Samuel 2:28; Psalms 135:4; Psalms 135:5)
b. human choice persons (Exodus 17:9; Joshua 24:15; Joshua 24:22)
4. choose, select from, with accusative and מִן (2 Samuel 10:9; 1 Chronicles 19:10)
5. accusative
a. divine choice (2 Chronicles 7:16; Psalms 78:68; Isaiah 41:9)
b. man's choice (Exodus 18:28; Judges 5:8; Joshua 8:3)
6. with עַל (Job 36:21; 2 Samuel 19:39)
7. with לְ of accusative (1 Samuel 20:30; Psalms 89:20; Jeremiah 49:19)
8. test, try (Isaiah 48:10)
Niph`al: to be chosen (Jeremiah 8:3; Proverbs 8:10)
a. chosen, choice (Proverbs 8:10; Proverbs 8:19; Proverbs 10:20)
b. death will be chosen rather than life, choicer than (Jeremiah 8:3; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 22:1)
Pu`al: chosen, selected (Ecclesiastes 9:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 171 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:2 The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
- Genesis 13:11 Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan Valley to the east of them. He went there with his flocks and servants and parted company with his uncle Abram.
- Exodus 14:7 He took with him 600 of Egypt’s best chariots, along with the rest of the chariots of Egypt, each with its commander.
- Exodus 17:9 Moses commanded Joshua, “Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.”
- Exodus 18:25 He chose capable men from all over Israel and appointed them as leaders over the people. He put them in charge of groups of one thousand, one hundred, fifty, and ten.
- Numbers 16:5 Then he said to Korah and his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show us who belongs to him and who is holy. The Lord will allow only those whom he selects to enter his own presence.
See every passage
- Genesis 6:2, 13:11
- Exodus 14:7, 17:9, 18:25
- Numbers 16:5, 16:7, 17:5
- Deuteronomy 4:37, 7:6, 7:7, 10:15, 12:5, 12:11, 12:14, 12:18, 12:21, 12:26, 14:2, 14:23, 14:24, 14:25, 15:20, 16:2, 16:6, 16:7, 16:11, 16:15, 16:16, 17:8, 17:10, 17:15, 18:5, 18:6, 21:5, 23:16, 26:2, 30:19, 31:11
- Joshua 8:3, 9:27, 24:15, 24:22
- Judges 5:8, 10:14, 20:15, 20:16, 20:34
- 1 Samuel 2:28, 8:18, 10:24, 12:13, 13:2, 16:8, 16:9, 16:10, 17:40, 20:30, 24:2, 26:2
- 2 Samuel 6:1, 6:21, 10:9, 15:15, 16:18, 17:1, 19:38, 24:12
- 1 Kings 3:8, 8:16, 8:44, 8:48, 11:13, 11:32, 11:34, 11:36, 12:21, 14:21, 18:23, 18:25
- 2 Kings 21:7, 23:27
- 1 Chronicles 15:2, 19:10, 21:10, 28:4, 28:5, 28:6, 28:10, 29:1
- 2 Chronicles 6:5, 6:6, 6:34, 6:38, 7:12, 7:16, 11:1, 12:13, 13:3, 13:17, 25:5, 29:11, 33:7
- Nehemiah 1:9, 9:7
- Job 7:15, 9:14, 15:5, 29:25, 34:4, 34:33, 36:21
- Psalms 25:12, 33:12, 47:4, 65:4, 78:67, 78:68, 78:70, 84:10, 89:19, 105:26, 119:30, 119:173, 132:13, 135:4
- Proverbs 1:29, 3:31, 8:10, 8:19, 10:20, 16:16, 21:3, 22:1
- Song of Solomon 5:15
- Isaiah 1:29, 7:15, 7:16, 14:1, 40:20, 41:8, 41:9, 41:24, 43:10, 44:1, 44:2, 48:10, 49:7, 56:4, 58:5, 58:6, 65:12, 66:3, 66:4
- Jeremiah 8:3, 33:24, 49:19, 50:44
- Ezekiel 20:5
- Haggai 2:23
- Zechariah 1:17, 2:12, 3:2
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).