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Lexicon :: Strong's G1586 - eklegomai

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ἐκλέγομαι
Transliteration
eklegomai (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-leg'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice from ἐκ (G1537) and λέγω (G3004) (in its primary sense)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:144,505

Strong’s Definitions

†ἐκλέγομαι eklégomai, ek-leg'-om-ahee; middle voice from G1537 and G3004 (in its primary sense); to select:—make choice, choose (out), chosen.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x

The KJV translates Strong's G1586 in the following manner: choose (19x), choose out (1x), make choice (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x
The KJV translates Strong's G1586 in the following manner: choose (19x), choose out (1x), make choice (1x).

  1. to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one's self

    1. choosing one out of many, i.e. Jesus choosing his disciples

    2. choosing one for an office

    3. of God choosing whom he judged fit to receive his favours and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight

      1. i.e. the Israelites

    4. of God the Father choosing Christians, as those whom he set apart from the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: (James 2:5) so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits only

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἐκλέγομαι eklégomai, ek-leg'-om-ahee; middle voice from G1537 and G3004 (in its primary sense); to select:—make choice, choose (out), chosen.
STRONGS G1586:
ἐκλέγω: perfect passive participle ἐκλελεγμένος, once in Luke 9:35 L marginal reading T Tr WH; middle, imperfect ἐξελεγομην (Luke 14:7); 1 aorist ἐξελεξάμην; in Greek writings from Herodotus down; the Sept. for בָּחַר; to pick out, choose; in the N. T. (except Luke 9:35, where the reading is doubtful) always middle, ἐκλέγομαι, to pick or choose out for oneself: τί, Luke 10:42; Luke 14:7; τινα, one from among many (of Jesus choosing his disciples), John 6:70; John 13:18; John 15:16; Acts 1:2; ἀπό τινων, from a number of persons (Sir. 45:16), Luke 6:13: ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου, John 15:19; used of choosing one for an office, Acts 6:5; followed by ἐκ τινων, Acts 1:24; to discharge some business, Acts 15:22, 25; ἐν ἡμῖν (others ὑμῖν) ἐξελέξατο ὁ Θεός, followed by the accusative and infinitive denoting the end, God made choice among us i. e. in our ranks, Acts 15:7, where formerly many, misled by the Hebrew בְּ בָּחַר (1 Samuel 16:9; 1 Kings 8:16, etc., and the Sept. of these passages), wrongly regarded ἐν ἡμῖν as the object on which the mind of the chooser was as it were fixed; (Winers Grammar, § 32, 3 a.; Buttmann, 159 (138)). Especially is God said ἐκλέξασθαι those whom he has judged fit to receive his favors and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight: thus of the Israelites, Acts 13:17 (Deuteronomy 14:2 (cf. Deuteronomy 4:37); 2 Macc. 5:19); of Christians, as those whom he has set apart from among the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: Mark 13:20; 1 Corinthians 1:27f; with two accusatives, one of the object, the other of the predicate (Winer's Grammar, § 32, 4 b.), James 2:5; τινα ἐν Χριστῷ, so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits, followed by the accusative with an infinitive denoting the end, Ephesians 1:4. In Luke 9:35 L marginal reading T Tr WH Jesus is called ὁ υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ ἐκλελεγμένος (R G L text ἀγαπητός), as being dear to God beyond all others and exalted by him to the preeminent dignity of Messiah; but see ἐκλεκτός, 1 b.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
4:37; 14:2
1 Samuel
16:9
1 Kings
8:16
Mark
13:20
Luke
6:13; 9:35; 9:35; 9:35; 10:42; 14:7; 14:7
John
6:70; 13:18; 15:16; 15:19
Acts
1:2; 1:24; 6:5; 13:17; 15:7; 15:22; 15:25
1 Corinthians
1:27
Ephesians
1:4
James
2:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1586 matches the Greek ἐκλέγομαι (eklegomai),
which occurs 126 times in 120 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 6:2–2Sa 19:38)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself all the [fn]valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5 - and he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “Tomorrow morning Yahweh will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7 - and put fire in them, and lay incense upon them in the presence of Yahweh tomorrow; and the man whom Yahweh chooses shall be the one who is holy. [fn]You have gone far enough, you sons of Levi!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - “And it will come about that the rod of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will rid Myself of the grumblings of the sons of Israel, who are grumbling against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you on your way, to spy out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - “[fn]Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them. And He [fn]personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

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“Yahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - “Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5 - “But you shall seek Yahweh at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the [fn]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - “But you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God in all that you send forth your hand to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21 - “If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you, then you may sacrifice of your herd and flock which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates [fn]whatever you desire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - “Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - “For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for His [fn]treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23 - “And you shall eat in the presence of Yahweh your God, at the place where He chooses for His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God all your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - “And if the [fn]distance is so great for you that you are not able to [fn]bring the tithe, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when Yahweh your God blesses you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25 - then you shall [fn]exchange it for money and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20 - “You and your household shall eat it every year before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - “And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - but at the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the appointed time that you came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7 - “And you shall cook and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the [fn]orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15 - “Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 -

“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed.

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“If any case is too difficult for you to judge, between [fn]one kind of homicide or another, between [fn]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between [fn]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - “And you shall do according to the [fn]terms of the judgment which they declare to you from that place which Yahweh chooses; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they teach you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you shall surely set a king over you whom Yahweh your God chooses, one from among your brothers you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - “For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh all the days.

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“Now if a Levite comes from any of your gates of the towns throughout Israel where he sojourns and comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which Yahweh chooses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground which you bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your seed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11 - when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which He would choose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - And Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Yahweh, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - “Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - ‘And did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18 - “Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen? Surely there is no one like him among all the people.” So all the people shouted and said, “[fn]Long live the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - “So now, behold, the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

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And Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one either.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Next Jesse made [fn]Shammah pass by. And he said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one either.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - And he stood and called out to the [fn]battle lines of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to arrange yourselves for battle? Am I not the Philistine and you slaves of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his stick in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, even in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - So David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Yahweh, over Israel; therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - Then Hushai said to Absalom, “No! For whom Yahweh, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - So the king answered, “Chimham shall pass over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you [fn]require of me, I will do for you.”

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