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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 125 times in 119 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 [fn]sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5 - And he spoke to Core and all his assembly, saying, God has visited and known those that are his and who are holy, and has brought them to himself; and whom he has chosen for himself, he has brought to himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7 - and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord to-morrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, ye sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - (LXX 17:20) And it shall be, the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall blossom; and I will remove from me the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 - It was not because ye are more numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord made choice of you: for ye are fewer in number than all other nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - Only the Lord chose your fathers to love them, and he chose out their seed after them, even you, beyond all nations, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5 - But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - And there shall be a place which the Lord thy God shall choose for his name to be called there, thither shall ye bring all things that I order you to-day; your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and every choice gift of yours, whatsoever ye shall vow to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - save in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, in one of thy tribes, there shall ye offer your whole-burnt-offerings, and there shalt thou do all things whatsoever I charge thee this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - But before the Lord thy God thou shalt eat it, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the stranger that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, on whatsoever thou shalt lay thine hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21 - And if the place be far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself, that his name be called upon it, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which God shall have given thee, even as I commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy cities according to the desire of thy soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - But thou shalt take thy holy things, if thou hast any, and thy vowed-offerings, and come to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name named upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23 - And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - And if the journey be too far for thee, and thou art not able to bring them, because the place is far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25 - then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20 - Thou shalt eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7 - And thou shalt boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt return in the morning, and go to thy [fn]house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be called there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15 - Seven days shalt thou keep a feast to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself; and if the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, then thou shalt rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 - Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8 - And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, [fn]between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - because the Lord has chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which [fn]he shall have chosen,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11 - when all Israel come together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall choose, ye shall read this law before all Israel in their ears,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - And Joshua made them in that day hewers of wood and drawers of water to the whole congregation, and for the altar of God: therefore the inhabitants of Gabaon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God until this day, even for the place which the Lord should choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - And Joshua said to the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye have chosen the Lord to serve him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - And I chose the house of thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to me in the priest's office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave to the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18 - And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and the Lord shall not hear you in those days, because ye have chosen to yourselves a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - And Samuel said to all the people, Have ye seen whom the Lord has chosen to himself, that there is none like to him among you all? And all the people took notice, and said, Let the king live!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - And now behold the king [fn]whom ye have chosen; and behold, the Lord has set a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Machmas, and in mount Bæthel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - And Jessæ called Aminadab, and he passed before Samuel: and he said, Neither has God chosen this one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - And Jessæ caused Sama to pass by: and he said, Neither has God chosen [fn]this one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - And Jessæ caused his seven sons to pass before Samuel: and Samuel said, The Lord has not chosen these.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - And he stood and cried to the army of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come forth to set yourselves in battle array against us? Am not I a Philistine, and ye [fn]Hebrews of Saul? choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's scrip which he had for his store, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - And David said to Melchol, I will dance before the Lord. Blessed be the Lord who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to make me head over his people, even over Israel: therefore I will play, and dance before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - And Chusi said to Abessalom, Nay, but following whom the Lord, and this people, and all Israel have chosen,—his will I be, and with him will I dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - (LXX 19:39) And the king said, Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do to him what is good in my sight; and whatsoever thou shalt choose at my hand, I will do for thee.

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