TBESH · H0977
בָּחַר · ba.char · to choose
1) to choose, elect, decide for 1a) (Qal) to choose 1b) (Niphal) to be chosen 1c) (Pual) to be chosen, selected
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ba.char H977
בָּחַר (ba.char) means “to choose” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בָּחַר Hebrew · H977 171 tagged occurrences in 163 verses
Pronunciation guide: baw-khar' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
KJV glosses: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
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How translators render H977
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| will choose | 19 |
| chosen | 13 |
| i have chosen | 12 |
| you have chosen | 9 |
| has chosen | 8 |
| chose | 7 |
| choose | 6 |
| i chose | 5 |
| he will choose | 4 |
| and choose | 3 |
| and chose | 3 |
| chooses | 3 |
| have chosen | 3 |
| he chooses | 3 |
| he chose | 3 |
| is more desirable | 3 |
| select | 3 |
| had chosen | 2 |
| has chosen them | 2 |
| he had chosen | 2 |
| he has chosen | 2 |
| he selected | 2 |
| is the chosen one | 2 |
| or choose | 2 |
| the best | 2 |
| whom i have chosen | 2 |
| and have chosen | 1 |
| and he has chosen you | 1 |
| and i have chosen | 1 |
| and you choose | 1 |
| anyone who chooses | 1 |
| as majestic | 1 |
| but he chose | 1 |
| but i have chosen | 1 |
| but now i have chosen | 1 |
| chosen for him | 1 |
| chosen men | 1 |
| decides | 1 |
| for i have now chosen | 1 |
| has chosen you | 1 |
| have i chosen | 1 |
| he would choose | 1 |
| i choose | 1 |
| i have chosen him | 1 |
| i have tested | 1 |
| i selected | 1 |
| i would rather | 1 |
| is among | 1 |
| is choice | 1 |
| is the one you choose | 1 |
| let me choose | 1 |
| let the prophets of baal choose | 1 |
| let us choose | 1 |
| must choose | 1 |
| of the best | 1 |
| one chosen | 1 |
| rather than pure | 1 |
| selected | 1 |
| shall choose | 1 |
| surpasses choice | 1 |
| that i have chosen | 1 |
| the chosen men | 1 |
| then choose | 1 |
| therefore choose | 1 |
| they chose | 1 |
| when they chose | 1 |
| who choose | 1 |
| who has chosen | 1 |
| who has chosen you | 1 |
| would prefer | 1 |
| you desire | 1 |
| you have preferred | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shall choose | 17 |
| chosen | 15 |
| hath chosen | 13 |
| choose | 5 |
| which i have chosen | 5 |
| which thou hast chosen | 5 |
| and choose | 4 |
| chose | 4 |
| which he shall choose | 4 |
| whom i have chosen | 4 |
| and chose | 3 |
| chooseth | 3 |
| i chose | 3 |
| i have chosen | 3 |
| that i have chosen | 3 |
| a chosen | 2 |
| choice | 2 |
| for i have chosen | 2 |
| he chose | 2 |
| he hath chosen | 2 |
| he shall choose | 2 |
| of all the choice | 2 |
| rather to be chosen | 2 |
| against yourselves that ye have chosen | 1 |
| and did choose | 1 |
| and did i choose | 1 |
| and did not choose | 1 |
| and have chosen | 1 |
| and he shall choose | 1 |
| and let them choose | 1 |
| and shall choose | 1 |
| and shall yet choose | 1 |
| and thou choosest | 1 |
| and will yet choose | 1 |
| but chose | 1 |
| but i have chosen | 1 |
| choose out | 1 |
| choose us out | 1 |
| chose out | 1 |
| chosen men | 1 |
| did choose | 1 |
| doth choose | 1 |
| excellent | 1 |
| for he hath chosen | 1 |
| for now have i chosen | 1 |
| for this hast thou chosen | 1 |
| had chosen | 1 |
| hath not chosen | 1 |
| he chose out | 1 |
| i also will choose | 1 |
| i had rather | 1 |
| joined | 1 |
| let me now choose out | 1 |
| let us choose | 1 |
| me for i have chosen | 1 |
| might be there and have chosen | 1 |
| might be there neither chose | 1 |
| might be therein but i chose | 1 |
| more acceptable | 1 |
| of all which they chose | 1 |
| or whether thou choose | 1 |
| rather than choice | 1 |
| sake which i have chosen | 1 |
| sake whom i chose | 1 |
| shall appoint | 1 |
| shall be chosen | 1 |
| than choice | 1 |
| that hath chosen | 1 |
| that thou hast chosen | 1 |
| that ye have chosen | 1 |
| them and he chose | 1 |
| therefore choose | 1 |
| therefore he chose | 1 |
| they chose | 1 |
| thou choosest | 1 |
| unto thee and whatsoever thou shalt require | 1 |
| upon you nor choose | 1 |
| when i chose | 1 |
| which chose | 1 |
| which he should choose | 1 |
| which ye have chosen | 1 |
| which ye shall have chosen | 1 |
| who didst choose | 1 |
| whom he had chosen | 1 |
| whom he hath chosen | 1 |
| whom i shall choose | 1 |
| whom ye have chosen | 1 |
| yea they have chosen | 1 |
Verses containing H977
Page 1 of 4. 163 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 6:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Read word by word - Genesis 13:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
Read word by word - Exodus 14:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
Read word by word - Exodus 17:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
Read word by word - Exodus 18:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Read word by word - Numbers 16:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses He will bring near to Himself.
Read word by word - Numbers 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”
Read word by word - Numbers 17:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 17.20
- Deuteronomy 4:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 10:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 14:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 15:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 18:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 21:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 23:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 23.17
- Deuteronomy 26:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 31:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
Read word by word - Joshua 9:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
Read word by word - Joshua 24:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
Read word by word - Joshua 24:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
Read word by word - Judges 5:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Read word by word - Judges 10:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
Read word by word - Judges 20:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
Read word by word - Judges 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Read word by word - Judges 20:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 2:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the food offerings of the Israelites.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
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