Occurrences
Mibchâr occurs 11 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (4), Daniel (1)
- Genesis 23:6 — Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice (בְּמִבְחַ֣ר) of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Exodus 15:4 — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen (וּמִבְחַ֥ר) captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 — Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell 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 (מִבְחַ֣ר) vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
- Isaiah 37:24 — By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice (מִבְחַ֣ר) fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Jeremiah 22:7 — And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice (מִבְחַ֣ר) cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 48:15 — Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen (וּמִבְחַ֥ר) young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
- Ezekiel 23:7 — Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen (מִבְחַ֥ר) men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
- Ezekiel 24:4 — Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice (מִבְחַ֥ר) bones.
- Ezekiel 24:5 — Take the choice (מִבְחַ֤ר) of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
- Ezekiel 31:16 — I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice (מִבְחַ֥ר) and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
- Daniel 11:15 — So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen (מִבְחָרָ֔יו) people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.