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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H977 — בָּחַר
ba.char · to choose · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 6:2 · בָּחָֽרוּ׃that God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.Genesis 13:11 · וַיִּבְחַר־So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.Exodus 14:7 · בָּח֔וּרand he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.Exodus 17:9 · בְּחַר־Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”Exodus 18:25 · וַיִּבְחַ֨רMoses chose 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 · יִבְחַר־and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, “In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.Numbers 16:7 · יִבְחַ֥רand put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”Numbers 17:5 · אֶבְחַר־It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.”Deuteronomy 4:37 · וַיִּבְחַ֥רBecause he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;Deuteronomy 7:6 · בָּחַ֣ר׀For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 7:7 · וַיִּבְחַ֣רYahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:Deuteronomy 10:15 · וַיִּבְחַ֞רOnly Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.Deuteronomy 12:5 · יִבְחַ֨רBut to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;Deuteronomy 12:11 · יִבְחַר֩then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.Deuteronomy 12:14 · יִבְחַ֤רbut in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.Deuteronomy 12:18 · יִבְחַ֜רbut you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.Deuteronomy 12:21 · יִבְחַ֜רIf the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.Deuteronomy 12:26 · יִבְחַ֥רOnly your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:Deuteronomy 14:2 · בָּחַ֣רFor you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 14:23 · יִבְחַר֮You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.Deuteronomy 14:24 · יִבְחַר֙If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;Deuteronomy 14:25 · יִבְחַ֛רthen you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:Deuteronomy 15:20 · יִבְחַ֣רYou shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.Deuteronomy 16:2 · יִבְחַ֣רYou shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:6 · יִבְחַ֨רbut at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.Deuteronomy 16:7 · יִבְחַ֛רYou shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.Deuteronomy 16:11 · יִבְחַר֙and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:15 · יִבְחַ֣רYou shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.Deuteronomy 16:16 · יִבְחָ֔רThree times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:Deuteronomy 17:8 · יִבְחַ֛רIf there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;Deuteronomy 17:10 · יִבְחַ֣רYou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:Deuteronomy 17:15 · יִבְחַ֛רyou shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.Deuteronomy 18:5 · בָּחַ֛רFor Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.Deuteronomy 18:6 · יִבְחַ֥רIf a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;Deuteronomy 21:5 · בָּחַ֞רThe priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.Deuteronomy 23:16 · יִבְחַ֛רhe shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.Deuteronomy 26:2 · יִבְחַר֙that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Deuteronomy 30:19 · וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;Deuteronomy 31:11 · יִבְחָ֑רwhen all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.Joshua 8:3 · וַיִּבְחַ֣רSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.Joshua 9:27 · יִבְחָֽר׃ פThat day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.Joshua 24:15 · בַּחֲר֨וּIf it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”Joshua 24:22 · בְּחַרְתֶּ֥םJoshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”Judges 5:8 · יִבְחַר֙They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?Judges 10:14 · בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םGo and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”Judges 20:15 · בָּחֽוּר׃The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.Judges 20:16 · בָּח֔וּרAmong all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.Judges 20:34 · בָּחוּר֙There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that evil was close on them.1 Samuel 2:28 · וּבָחֹ֣רDid I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?1 Samuel 8:18 · בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םYou shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”1 Samuel 10:24 · בָּֽחַר־Samuel said to all the people, “You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Let the king live!”1 Samuel 12:13 · בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םNow therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.1 Samuel 13:2 · וַיִּבְחַר־Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.1 Samuel 16:8 · בָחַ֥רThen Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Neither has Yahweh chosen this one.”1 Samuel 16:9 · בָחַ֥רThen Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Neither has Yahweh chosen this one.”1 Samuel 16:10 · בָחַ֥רJesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”1 Samuel 17:40 · וַיִּבְחַר־He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his wallet. His sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.1 Samuel 20:30 · בֹחֵ֤רThen Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?1 Samuel 24:2 · בָּח֖וּרThen Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.1 Samuel 26:2 · בְּחוּרֵ֣יThen Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.2 Samuel 6:1 · בָּח֥וּרDavid again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.2 Samuel 6:21 · בָּֽחַר־David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before Yahweh.2 Samuel 10:9 · וַיִּבְחַ֗ר · בְּחוּרֵ֣יNow when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:2 Samuel 15:15 · יִבְחַ֛רThe king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”2 Samuel 16:18 · בָּחַ֧רHushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay.2 Samuel 17:1 · אֶבְחֲרָ֣הMoreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.2 Samuel 19:38 · תִּבְחַ֥רThe king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you.”2 Samuel 24:12 · בְּחַר־“Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”1 Kings 3:8 · בָּחָ֑רְתָּYour servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for multitude.1 Kings 8:16 · בָחַ֣רְתִּי · וָאֶבְחַ֣ר‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’1 Kings 8:44 · בָּחַ֣רְתָּ“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;1 Kings 8:48 · בָּחַ֔רְתָּif they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:1 Kings 11:13 · בָּחָֽרְתִּי׃However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”1 Kings 11:32 · בָּחַ֣רְתִּי(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);1 Kings 11:34 · בָּחַ֣רְתִּי“‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;1 Kings 11:36 · בָּחַ֣רְתִּיTo his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.1 Kings 12:21 · בָּח֖וּרWhen Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.1 Kings 14:21 · בָּחַ֨רRehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.1 Kings 18:23 · וְיִבְחֲר֣וּLet them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.1 Kings 18:25 · בַּחֲר֨וּElijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”2 Kings 21:7 · בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;2 Kings 23:27 · בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”1 Chronicles 15:2 · בָּחַ֣רThen David said, “No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever.”1 Chronicles 19:10 · וַיִּבְחַ֗ר · בָּחוּר֙Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.1 Chronicles 21:10 · בְּחַר־“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”1 Chronicles 28:4 · וַיִּבְחַ֡ר · בָּחַ֣רHowever Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.1 Chronicles 28:5 · וַיִּבְחַר֙Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.1 Chronicles 28:6 · בָחַ֨רְתִּיHe said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.1 Chronicles 28:10 · בָּ֧חַרTake heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”1 Chronicles 29:1 · בָּֽחַר־David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.2 Chronicles 6:5 · בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי · בָחַ֣רְתִּֽי‘Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:2 Chronicles 6:6 · וָאֶבְחַר֙ · וָאֶבְחַ֣רbut I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’2 Chronicles 6:34 · בָּחַ֣רְתָּ“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;2 Chronicles 6:38 · בָּחַ֔רְתָּif they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:2 Chronicles 7:12 · וּבָחַ֜רְתִּיYahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.2 Chronicles 7:16 · בָּחַ֤רְתִּיFor now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.2 Chronicles 11:1 · בָּח֖וּרWhen Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.2 Chronicles 12:13 · בָּחַ֨רSo king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.2 Chronicles 13:3 · בָּח֑וּר ס · בָּח֖וּרAbijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.2 Chronicles 13:17 · בָּחֽוּר׃Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.2 Chronicles 25:5 · בָּחוּר֙Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield.2 Chronicles 29:11 · בָּחַ֣רMy sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”2 Chronicles 33:7 · בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:Nehemiah 1:9 · בָּחַ֔רְתִּיbut if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’Nehemiah 9:7 · בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,Job 7:15 · וַתִּבְחַ֣רso that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.Job 9:14 · אֶבְחֲרָ֖הHow much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?Job 15:5 · וְ֝תִבְחַ֗רFor your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.Job 29:25 · אֶֽבֲחַ֣רI chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.Job 34:4 · נִבְחֲרָה־Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.Job 34:33 · תִבְחַ֣רShall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.Job 36:21 · בָּחַ֥רְתָּTake heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.Psalm 25:12 · יִבְחָֽר׃What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.Psalm 33:12 · בָּחַ֖רBlessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.Psalm 47:4 · יִבְחַר־He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.Psalm 65:4 · תִּֽבְחַ֣רBlessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.Psalm 78:67 · בָחָֽר׃Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,Psalm 78:68 · וַ֭יִּבְחַרBut chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.Psalm 78:70 · וַ֭יִּבְחַרHe also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;Psalm 84:10 · בָּחַ֗רְתִּיFor a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.Psalm 89:19 · בָח֣וּרThen you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.Psalm 105:26 · בָּֽחַר־He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.Psalm 119:30 · בָחָ֑רְתִּיI have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.Psalm 119:173 · בָחָֽרְתִּי׃Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.Psalm 132:13 · בָחַ֣רFor Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.Psalm 135:4 · בָּחַ֣רFor Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.Proverbs 1:29 · בָחָֽרוּ׃because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.Proverbs 3:31 · תִּ֝בְחַ֗רDon’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.Proverbs 8:10 · נִבְחָֽר׃Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.Proverbs 8:19 · נִבְחָֽר׃My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.Proverbs 10:20 · נִ֭בְחָרThe tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.Proverbs 16:16 · נִבְחָ֥רHow much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.Proverbs 21:3 · נִבְחָ֖רTo do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.Proverbs 22:1 · נִבְחָ֣רA good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.Song of Solomon 5:15 · בָּח֖וּרHis legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.Isaiah 1:29 · בְּחַרְתֶּֽם׃For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.Isaiah 7:15 · וּבָח֥וֹרHe shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.Isaiah 7:16 · וּבָחֹ֣רFor before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.Isaiah 14:1 · וּבָחַ֥רFor Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.Isaiah 40:20 · יִבְחָ֑רHe who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.Isaiah 41:8 · בְּחַרְתִּ֑יךָ“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,Isaiah 41:9 · בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָYou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’Isaiah 41:24 · יִבְחַ֥רBehold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.Isaiah 43:10 · בָּחָ֑רְתִּי“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.Isaiah 44:1 · בָּחַ֥רְתִּיYet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.Isaiah 44:2 · בָּחַ֥רְתִּיThis is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.Isaiah 48:10 · בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָBehold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.Isaiah 49:7 · וַיִּבְחָרֶֽךָּ׃Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”Isaiah 56:4 · וּבָֽחֲר֖וּFor thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:Isaiah 58:5 · אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּIs such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
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