Bâchar — H977

Definition

verb

properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select

1. to choose, elect, decide for
1. (Qal) to choose
2. (Niphal) to be chosen
3. (Pual) to be chosen, selected

Usually translated as

choose, choice, acceptable, appoint, excellent, be rather, require, join

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• hairéomai (G138)
• hairetízō (G140)
• arestós (G701)
• diakrínō (G1252)
• dokimázō (G1381)
• ekdéchomai (G1551)
• eklégomai (G1586)
• eklektós (G1588)
• exairéō (G1807)
• epithyméō (G1937)
• epilégomai (G1951)
• zēlóō (G2206)
• koinōnéō (G2841)
• métochos (G3353)
• pyróō (G4448)

Occurrences

Bâchar occurs 169 times in 161 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (3), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (31), Joshua (4), Judges (4), 1 Samuel (12), 2 Samuel (8), 1 Kings (12), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (8), 2 Chronicles (13), Nehemiah (2), Job (7), Psalms (13), Proverbs (8), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (19), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (1), Haggai (1), Zechariah (3)

• Genesis 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose (בָּחָֽרוּ).
• Genesis 13:11 — Then Lot chose (וַיִּבְחַר) him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
• Exodus 14:7 — And he took six hundred chosen (בָּח֔וּר) chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
• Exodus 17:9 — And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out (בְּחַר) men, 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 — And Moses chose (וַיִּבְחַ֨ר) able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• Numbers 16:5 — And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen (יִבְחַר) will he cause to come near unto him.
• Numbers 16:7 — And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose (יִבְחַ֥ר), 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 rod, whom I shall choose (אֶבְחַר), shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
• Deuteronomy 4:37 — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose (וַיִּבְחַ֥ר) their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
• Deuteronomy 7:6 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen (בָּחַ֣ר) thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 7:7 — The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose (וַיִּבְחַ֣ר) you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
• Deuteronomy 10:15 — Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose (וַיִּבְחַ֞ר) their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Deuteronomy 12:5 — But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose (יִבְחַ֨ר) out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
• Deuteronomy 12:11 — Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose (יִבְחַר֩) 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 vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
• Deuteronomy 12:14 — But in the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֤ר) in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
• Deuteronomy 12:18 — But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֜ר), thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
• Deuteronomy 12:21 — If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen (יִבְחַ֜ר) to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
• Deuteronomy 12:26 — Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֥ר):
• Deuteronomy 14:2 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen (בָּחַ֣ר) thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
• Deuteronomy 14:23 — And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose (יִבְחַר֮) to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
• Deuteronomy 14:24 — And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַר֙) to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
• Deuteronomy 14:25 — Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֛ר):
• Deuteronomy 15:20 — Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֣ר), thou and thy household.
• Deuteronomy 16:2 — Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֣ר) to place his name there.
• Deuteronomy 16:6 — But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֨ר) to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 16:7 — And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֛ר): and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
• Deuteronomy 16:11 — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen (יִבְחַר֙) to place his name there.
• Deuteronomy 16:15 — Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֣ר): because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose (יִבְחָ֔ר); in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
• Deuteronomy 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֛ר);
• Deuteronomy 17:10 — And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֣ר) shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
• Deuteronomy 17:15 — Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַ֛ר): one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
• Deuteronomy 18:5 — For the LORD thy God hath chosen (בָּחַ֛ר) him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
• Deuteronomy 18:6 — And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose (יִבְחַ֥ר);
• Deuteronomy 21:5 — And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen (בָּחַ֞ר) to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
• Deuteronomy 23:16 — He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose (יִבְחַ֛ר) in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
• 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 which the LORD thy God shall choose (יִבְחַר֙) to place his name there.
• Deuteronomy 30:19 — I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose (וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙) life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
• Deuteronomy 31:11 — When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose (יִבְחָ֑ר), thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
• Joshua 8:3 — So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out (וַיִּבְחַ֣ר) thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
• Joshua 9:27 — And Joshua made them that 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 (יִבְחָֽר).
• Joshua 24:15 — And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose (בַּחֲר֨וּ) you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
• Joshua 24:22 — And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen (בְּחַרְתֶּ֥ם) you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
• Judges 5:8 — They chose (יִבְחַר֙) new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
• Judges 10:14 — Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen (בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם); let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
• Judges 20:16 — Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen (בָּח֔וּר) men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
• Judges 20:34 — And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen (בָּחוּר֙) men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
• 1 Samuel 2:28 — And did I choose (וּבָחֹ֣ר) 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 (בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם) you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
• 1 Samuel 10:24 — And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen (בָּֽחַר), that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.