בָּחַר
ba.char
1. to choose, elect, decide for
a. (Qal) to choose
b. (Niphal) to be chosen
c. (Pual) to be chosen, selected
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 164 verses
- 2 Chronicles 25:5 בָּחוּר֙
Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 בָּחַ֣ר
Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙
Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- Nehemiah 1:9 בָּחַ֔רְתִּי
but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
- Nehemiah 9:7 בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Job 7:15 וַתִּבְחַ֣ר
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 9:14 אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
- Job 15:5 וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Job 29:25 אֶֽבֲחַ֣ר
I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
- Job 34:4 נִבְחֲרָה־
Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
- Job 34:33 תִבְחַ֣ר
Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.
- Job 36:21 בָּחַ֥רְתָּ
Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
- Psalms 25:12 יִבְחָֽר׃
Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
- Psalms 33:12 בָּחַ֖ר
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
- Psalms 47:4 יִבְחַר־
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
- Psalms 65:4 תִּֽבְחַ֣ר
Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
- Psalms 78:67 בָחָֽר׃
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
- Psalms 78:68 וַ֭יִּבְחַר
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Psalms 78:70 וַ֭יִּבְחַר
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Psalms 84:10 בָּחַ֗רְתִּי
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Psalms 89:19 בָח֣וּר
You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
- Psalms 105:26 בָּֽחַר־
He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
- Psalms 119:30 בָחָ֑רְתִּי
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
- Psalms 119:173 בָחָֽרְתִּי׃
May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
- Psalms 132:13 בָחַ֣ר
For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Psalms 135:4 בָּחַ֣ר
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- Proverbs 1:29 בָחָֽרוּ׃
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
- Proverbs 3:31 תִּ֝בְחַ֗ר
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
- Proverbs 8:10 נִבְחָֽר׃
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
- Proverbs 8:19 נִבְחָֽר׃
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
- Proverbs 10:20 נִ֭בְחָר
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
- Proverbs 16:16 נִבְחָ֥ר
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
- Proverbs 21:3 נִבְחָ֖ר
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 22:1 נִבְחָ֣ר
A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 יִבָּחֵר
There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
- Song of Solomon 5:15 בָּח֖וּר
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
- Isaiah 1:29 בְּחַרְתֶּֽם׃
Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
- Isaiah 7:15 וּבָח֥וֹר
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
- Isaiah 7:16 וּבָחֹ֣ר
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
- Isaiah 14:1 וּבָחַ֥ר
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 40:20 יִבְחָ֑ר
To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
- Isaiah 41:8 בְּחַרְתִּ֑יךָ
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
- Isaiah 41:9 בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ
I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
- Isaiah 41:24 יִבְחַ֥ר
Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
- Isaiah 43:10 בָּחָ֑רְתִּי
“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
- Isaiah 44:1 בָּחַ֥רְתִּי
But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 44:2 בָּחַ֥רְתִּי
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
- Isaiah 48:10 בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָ
See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
- Isaiah 49:7 וַיִּבְחָרֶֽךָּ׃
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
- Isaiah 56:4 וּבָֽחֲר֖וּ
For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—