G1586 ἐκλέγομαι
eklégomai — to select
KJV: make choice, choose (out), chosen
Built from ἐκ ek (literal or figurative) + λέγω légō (to "lay" forth)
Occurs 21 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Mark 13:20 — Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he…
- Luke 6:13 — When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named emissaries:
- Luke 10:42 — but one thing is needed. Miriam has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
- Luke 14:7 — He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
- John 6:70 — Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- John 13:18 — I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats…
- John 15:16 — You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should…
- John 15:19 — If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of…
- Acts 1:2 — until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the emissaries…
- Acts 1:24 — They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen