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Lexicon :: Strong's G1588 - eklektos

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ἐκλεκτός
Transliteration
eklektos (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-lek-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:181,505

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκλεκτός eklektós, ek-lek-tos'; from G1586; select; by implication, favorite:—chosen, elect.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G1588 in the following manner: elect (16x), chosen (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G1588 in the following manner: elect (16x), chosen (7x).

  1. picked out, chosen

    1. chosen by God,

      1. to obtain salvation through Christ

        1. Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God

      2. the Messiah is called "elect", as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable

      3. choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκλεκτός eklektós, ek-lek-tos'; from G1586; select; by implication, favorite:—chosen, elect.
STRONGS G1588:
ἐκλεκτός, ἐκλεκτή, ἐκλεκτόν (ἐκλέγω), picked out, chosen; rare in Greek writ:, as Thucydides 6, 100; Plato, legg. 11, p. 938 b.; 12, 948 a., etc.; the Sept. for בָּחוּר and בָּחִיר; in the N. T.
1. chosen by God, and
a. to obtain salvation through Christ (see ἐκλέγω); hence, Christians are called οἱ ἐκλεκτοί τοῦ Θεοῦ, the chosen or elect of God (cf. Winer's Grammar, 35 (34); 234 (219)), (יְהוָה בְּחִירֵי, said of pious Israelites Isaiah 65:9, 15, 23; Psalm 104:43 (Ps. 105:43), cf. Wis. 4:15): Luke 18:7; Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12; Titus 1:1; without the genitive Θεοῦ, Matthew 24:22, 24; Mark 13:20, 22; 1 Peter 1:1; with the addition of τοῦ Χριστοῦ, as the genitive of possessor, Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27 (T Tr omit the genitive); κλητοί καί ἐκλεκτοί καί πιστοί, Revelation 17:14; γένος ἐκλεκτόν, 1 Peter 2:9 (from Isaiah 43:20, cf. Additions to Esther 8:40 [Esther 8:368:12t] (Esth. 6:17, p. 64, Fritzsche edition)); ἐκλεκτοί, those who have become true partakers of the Christian salvation are contrasted with κλητοί, those who have been invited but who have not shown themselves fitted to obtain it (others regard the 'called' and the 'chosen' here as alike partakers of salvation, but the latter as the 'choice ones' (see 2 below), distinguished above the former; cf. James Morison or Meyer at the passage), Matthew 20:16 (here T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); Matt 22:14; finally, those are called ἐκλεκτοί who are destined for salvation but have not yet been brought to it, 2 Timothy 2:10 (but cf. Huther or Ellicott at the passage).
b. The Messiah is called preeminently ὁ ἐκλεκτός τοῦ Θεοῦ, as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable: Luke 23:35, cf. Luke 9:35 L marginal reading T Tr WH; cf. Dillmann, Das Buch Henoch (übers. u. erkhärt; allgem. Einl.), p. 23:
c. Angels are called ἐκλεκτοί, as those whom God has chosen out from other created beings to be peculiarly associated with him, and his highest ministers in governing the universe: 1 Timothy 5:21; see ἅγιος, 1 b.; μαρτύρομαι δέ ἐγώ μέν ὑμῶν τά ἅγια καί τούς ἱερούς ἀγγέλους τοῦ Θεοῦ, Josephus, b. j. 2, 16, 4 under the end; (yet others explain by 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; cf. Ellicott on 1 Timothy, the passage cited).
2. universally, choice, select, i. e. the best of its kind or class, excellent, preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians, 2 John 1:1, 13; with ἐν κυρίῳ added, eminent as a Christian (see ἐν, I. 6 b.), Romans 16:13; of things: λίθος, 1 Peter 2:4 (6) (Isaiah 28:16; 2 Esdr. 5:8; Enoch, chapter 8 Greek text, Dillmann edition, p. 82f).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
105:43
Isaiah
2; 28:16; 43:20; 65:9; 65:15; 65:23
Matthew
20:16; 22:14; 24:22; 24:24; 24:31
Mark
13:20; 13:22; 13:27
Luke
9:35; 18:7; 23:35
Romans
8:33; 16:13
Colossians
3:12
1 Timothy
5:21
2 Timothy
2:10
Titus
1:1
1 Peter
1:1; 2:4; 2:9
2 Peter
2:4
2 John
1:1; 1:13
Jude
1:6
Revelation
17:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1588 matches the Greek ἐκλεκτός (eklektos),
which occurs 80 times in 77 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - “Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels[fn] of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels[fn] of fragrant calamus,

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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 BoxJdg 20:15 - At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul—the LORD’s chosen one.” So the king said, “I will give them to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:27 - to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were descendants of Asher—heads of families, choice men, brave warriors and outstanding leaders. The number of men ready for battle, as listed in their genealogy, was 26,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - Altogether, those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds numbered 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust by David and Samuel the seer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:13 - you his servants, the descendants of Israel, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Kun, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, David took a great quantity of bronze, which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 - He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:26 - to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:3 - You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 - Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:6 - you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:43 - He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:5 - that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:24 - Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:3 - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 - His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 - Friends: Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:7 - Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 - The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 - “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

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