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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5 - Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:7 - and tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 - The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5 - But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21 - If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:26 - But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:23 - Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away),

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:25 - then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:20 - Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[fn] of your departure from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7 - Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15 - For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 - Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8 - If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:19 - This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:11 - when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:27 - That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the LORD at the place the LORD would choose. And that is what they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - I chose your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your ancestor’s family all the food offerings presented by the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18 - When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you asked for; see, the LORD has set a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the LORD, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - The king said, “Kimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever you wish. And anything you desire from me I will do for you.”

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