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 2 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.
- 1 Samuel 10:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 12:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 13:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 16:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel told him, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 17:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 20:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 24:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.3
- 1 Samuel 26:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 10:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 15:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 16:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by this people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 17:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 19:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.39
- 2 Samuel 24:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:16
· BSB · 2 occurrences
‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:48
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:36
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 12:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 19:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 21:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:4
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:5
· BSB · 2 occurrences
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 7:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 11:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 12:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 13:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 13:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
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