בָּחַר bâchar

Hebrew · Strong's H977 · pronounced baw-khar' · used 171 times in 163 verses

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

Derivation: a primitive root;

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Where it is used

Psalms 89:19 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
Psalms 105:26 He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119:173 May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
Psalms 132:13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
Psalms 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
Proverbs 1:29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Proverbs 3:31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
Proverbs 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 22:1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
Isaiah 1:29 Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
Isaiah 7:15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
Isaiah 7:16 For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Isaiah 14:1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 40:20 One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
Isaiah 41:8 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
Isaiah 41:9 I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
Isaiah 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
Isaiah 44:1 But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:2 This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 48:10 See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 49:7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
Isaiah 56:4 For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—
Isaiah 58:5 Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
Isaiah 58:6 Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Isaiah 66:3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
Isaiah 66:4 So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Jeremiah 8:3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 33:24 “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
Ezekiel 20:5 and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
Haggai 2:23 On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
Zechariah 1:17 Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
Zechariah 2:12 And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah 3:2 And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”