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Lexicon :: Strong's H977 - bāḥar

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בָּחַר
Transliteration
bāḥar
Pronunciation
baw-khar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 231

Strong’s Definitions

בָּחַר bâchar, baw-khar'; a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select:—acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x

The KJV translates Strong's H977 in the following manner: choose (77x), chosen (77x), choice (6x), choose...out (5x), acceptable (1x), appoint (1x), excellent (1x), chosen men (1x), rather (1x), require (1x), not translated.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x
The KJV translates Strong's H977 in the following manner: choose (77x), chosen (77x), choice (6x), choose...out (5x), acceptable (1x), appoint (1x), excellent (1x), chosen men (1x), rather (1x), require (1x), not translated.
  1. to choose, elect, decide for

    1. (Qal) to choose

    2. (Niphal) to be chosen

    3. (Pual) to be chosen, selected

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּחַר bâchar, baw-khar'; a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select:—acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
STRONGS H977: Abbreviations
בָּחַר verb choose (compare Aramaic בְּחַר, Syriac bdb010310 || בחן, Assyrian bêru (√ באר :3) DlPr 76) —
Qal Perfect בָּחַר Deuteronomy 7:6 + 66 times; יִבְחַר Isaiah 41:24 + 60 times; אֶבֲחַר Job 29:25 (Baer); Imperative בְּחַר Exodus 17:9 + 5 times; Infinitive absolute בָּחוֺר 1 Samuel 2:28; Isaiah 7:15, 16; Infinitive construct suffix בָּחֳרִי Ezekiel 20:5; Participle בֹּחֵר 1 Samuel 20:30; Zechariah 3:2; passive בָּחוּר Exodus 14:7 + 18 times; —
1. with בְּ
b. man's choice, of ways Proverbs 3:31; Isaiah 66:3; good things Isaiah 7:15, 16; life Deuteronomy 30:19; gods Judges 10:14; Isaiah 41:24; God's pleasure Isaiah 56:4; Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 66:4.
2. with אֲשֶׁר (alone, for אשׁר בחר ב׳):
a. divine choice, Israel Isaiah 41:8 יַעֲקֹב אֲשֶׁר בְּחַרְתִּיךָ, Isaiah 43:10; the people 1 Kings 3:8; Psalm 33:12; men Numbers 16:7 (P) Psalm 65:5; king 2 Samuel 16:18; 1 Kings 11:34; place of sacrifice Deuteronomy 12:14, 26; Deuteronomy 15:20; Deuteronomy 17:10; Deuteronomy 31:11 (D) Joshua 9:27 (P), especially לָשׂוּם שְׁמוֺ שָׁם Deuteronomy 12:5, 21; Deuteronomy 14:24, לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֺ שָׁם Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 14:23; Deuteronomy 16:2, 6, 11; Nehemiah 1:9; the city 1 Kings 8:48 (= 2 Chronicles 6:38), לשׂום שׁמי שׁם 1 Kings 11:36; 1 Kings 14:21 (= 2 Chronicles 12:13); Jerusalem 1 Kings 11:13; 2 Kings 21:7 (= 2 Chronicles 33:7) 2 Kings 23:27; fast Isaiah 58:5, 6; way Psalm 25:12.
b. man's choice, place to dwell in Deuteronomy 23:7; gardens Isaiah 1:29; king 1 Samuel 12:13; wives Genesis 6:2 (J); what to do 2 Samuel 15:15.
3. with accusative & לְ, choose some one or something for:
a. divine choice, of Levi 1 Samuel 2:28; Jacob Psalm 135:4; Psalm 135:5; inheritance Psalm 47:5.
4. with accusative and מִן, choose, select from 2 Samuel 10:9 (= 1 Chronicles 19:10).
5. accusative
a. divine choice, temple 2 Chronicles 7:16; Judah Psalm 78:68; servant Isaiah 41:9; Isaiah 49:7.
6. with עַל, כי על זה בחרת מעני for this thou hast chosen rather than affliction Job 36:21; with accusative and על pregnantly כל אשׁר תבחר עלי all that thou choosest (to lay) upon me 2 Samuel 19:39.
7. with לְ of accusative 1 Samuel 20:30 (many MSS. have בְּ; but Greek Version of the LXX We Dr read חָבֵר companion). The participle בָּחוּר chosen, of a ruler Psalm 89:20, warrior Jeremiah 49:19 (= Jeremiah 50:44); as cedars Songs 5:15; collective רכב בחור chosen chariots Exodus 14:7 (E); אישׁ בחור chosen men, warriors Judges 20:15, 16, 34; 1 Samuel 24:3; 2 Chronicles 13:3, 17, for which בָּחוּר alone 1 Kings 12:21 2 Chronicles 11:1; 25:5; בחורי ישׂראל 1 Samuel 26:2; Psalm 78:31; 2 Samuel 10:9 בחורי בישׂראל (|| 1 Chronicles 19:10 בחור בישׂראל, doubtless the true reading, as 2 Samuel 6:1).
8. test, try (Aramaic = בחן) בְּחַרְתִּיךָ בְּכוּר עֹ֑נִי Isaiah 48:10 I have tested thee in the furnace of affliction Syriac Version Targum Ges Hi Ew De Che Dr, but chosen Vulgate Rab Calv AV. Niph. נִבְחַר Jeremiah 8:3; Participle נִבְחָר Proverbs 8:10 + 5 times; — to be chosen.
a. absolute chosen, choice Proverbs 8:10, 19; Proverbs 10:20.
b. construct מִן, וְנִבְחַר מות מחיים death will be chosen rather than life Jeremiah 8:3; choicer than Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 22:1; נבחר ליהוה מזבח choicer (more acceptable) to Yahweh than peace-offering Proverbs 21:3.
Pu. יְבֻחַר chosen, selected Ecclesiastes 9:4 (יְחֻבַּר Qr).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:2; 13:11

Exodus

14:7; 14:7; 17:9; 17:9

Leviticus

1

Numbers

16:5; 16:7

Deuteronomy

4:37; 7:6; 7:6; 7:7; 10:15; 12:5; 12:11; 12:14; 12:18; 12:21; 12:26; 14:2; 14:23; 14:24; 14:25; 15:20; 16:2; 16:6; 16:7; 16:11; 16:15; 17:8; 17:10; 17:15; 18:5; 21:5; 23:7; 30:19; 31:11

Joshua

8:3; 9:27; 24:15; 24:22

Judges

5:8; 10:14; 20:15; 20:16; 20:34

1 Samuel

2:28; 8:18; 10:24; 12:13; 13:12; 16:8; 16:9; 16:10; 17:40; 20:30; 20:30; 24:3; 26:2

2 Samuel

6:1; 6:21; 10:9; 10:9; 15:15; 16:18; 17:1; 19:39; 24:12

1 Kings

3:8; 8:16; 8:16; 8:44; 8:48; 11:13; 11:32; 11:34; 11:36; 12:21; 14:21; 18:23; 18:25

2 Kings

21:7; 23:27

1 Chronicles

15:2; 19:10; 19:10; 21:20; 28:4; 28:4; 28:5; 29:1

2 Chronicles

6:5; 6:5; 6:6; 6:6; 6:34; 6:38; 7:12; 7:16; 11:1; 12:13; 13:3; 13:17; 25:5; 29:11; 33:7

Nehemiah

1:9; 9:7

Job

7:15; 9:14; 15:5; 29:25; 29:25; 34:4; 34:33; 36:21

Psalms

25:12; 33:12; 47:5; 65:5; 78:31; 78:67; 78:68; 78:70; 89:20; 105:26; 119:30; 119:173; 132:13; 135:4; 135:5

Proverbs

1:29; 3:31; 8:10; 8:10; 8:19; 10:20; 16:16; 21:3; 22:1

Ecclesiastes

9:4

Song of Songs

5:15

Isaiah

1:29; 7:15; 7:15; 7:16; 7:16; 14:1; 40:20; 41:8; 41:9; 41:24; 41:24; 43:10; 44:1; 44:2; 48:10; 49:7; 56:4; 58:5; 58:6; 65:12; 66:3; 66:4; 66:4

Jeremiah

8:3; 8:3; 33:24; 49:19; 50:44

Ezekiel

20:5; 20:5

Haggai

2:23

Zechariah

1:17; 3:2; 3:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H977 matches the Hebrew בָּחַר (bāḥar),
which occurs 170 times in 162 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (1Sa 10:24–2Ch 13:17)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen H977? Surely there is no one like him among all the people.” So all the people shouted and said, “[fn]Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - “And now, behold, the king whom you have chosen H977, whom you have asked for, and behold, the LORD has [fn]put a king over you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 -

Now Saul chose H977 for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent the rest of the people away, each to his tent.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass before Samuel. But he said, “The LORD has not chosen H977 this one, either.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Next Jesse had [fn]Shammah pass by. And he said, “The LORD has not chosen H977 this one, either.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - So Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen H977 these.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand and chose H977 for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, that is, in his shepherd’s pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 -

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing H977 the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand chosen H977 men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul set out and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, [fn]taking with him three thousand chosen H977 men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:1 -

Now David again gathered all the chosen H977 men of Israel, thirty thousand.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - But David said to Michal, “I was before the LORD, who preferred H977 me to your father and to all his house, to appoint me as ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel. So I will [fn]celebrate before the LORD!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 -

Now when Joab saw that [fn]the battle was set against him at the front and at the rear, he selected H977 warriors from all the choice H977 men H977 in Israel, and lined them up against the Arameans.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:15 - Then the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants will do whatever my lord the king chooses H977.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - So Hushai said to Absalom, “No! For whomever the LORD, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen H977, his I shall be, and with him I shall remain.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 -

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose H977 twelve thousand men and let me set out and pursue David tonight.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - And the king answered, “Chimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight; and whatever you [fn]require H977 of me, I will do for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:12 - “Go and speak to David, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I am imposing upon you three choices; choose H977 for yourself one of them, and I will do it to you.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:8 - “And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen H977, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose H977 a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house so that My name would be there, but I chose H977 David to be over My people Israel.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 -

“When Your people go out to battle against [fn]their enemy, by whatever way You send them, and they pray to the LORD [fn]toward the city which You have chosen H977 and the house which I have built for Your name,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen H977, and the house which I have built for Your name;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:13 - “Yet I will not tear away all the kingdom, but 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 H977.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:32 - (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen H977 from all the tribes of Israel),
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - ‘Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose H977, who kept My commandments and My statutes;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36 - ‘But to his son I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen H977 for Myself to put My name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 -

Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen H977 warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 -

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen H977 from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:23 - “Now have them give us two oxen; and have them choose H977 the one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 -

So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose H977 the one ox for yourselves and prepare it first, since there are many of you, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under the ox.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - Then he put the carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen H977 from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - And the LORD said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight, just as I have removed Israel. And I will reject this city which I have chosen H977, Jerusalem, and the [fn]temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there!’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said, “No one is to carry the ark of God except the Levites; for the LORD chose H977 them to carry the ark of the LORD and to serve Him forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 -

Now when Joab saw that the [fn]battle was set against him at the front and at the rear, he selected H977 warriors from all the choice men in Israel and lined them up against the Arameans.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:10 - “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I extend to you three choices; choose H977 for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:4 - “Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose H977 me from all the household of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen H977 Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:5 - “Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), He has chosen H977 my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:6 - “He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who shall build My house and My courtyards; for I have chosen H977 him to be a son to Me, and I will be a Father to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:10 - “Consider now, for the LORD has chosen H977 you to build a house for the sanctuary; be courageous and act.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 -

Then King David said to the entire assembly, “My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen H977, is still young and inexperienced, and the work is great; for the [fn]temple is not for mankind, but for the LORD God.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose H977 a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that My name might be there, nor did I choose H977 a man to be the leader over My people Israel;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:6 - but I have chosen H977 Jerusalem so that My name might be there, and I have chosen H977 David to be over My people Israel.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 -

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way You send them, and they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen H977 and the house which I have built for Your name,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen H977, and toward the house which I have built for Your name,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12 -

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen H977 this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:16 - “For now I have chosen H977 and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there [fn]always.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 -

Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen H977 warriors, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 -

So King Rehoboam became powerful in Jerusalem and reigned there. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen H977 from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3 - Abijah began the battle with an army of warriors, four hundred thousand chosen H977 men, while Jeroboam drew up in battle formation against him with eight hundred thousand chosen H977 men who were valiant warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that five hundred thousand chosen H977 men of Israel fell slain.

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