{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G1586",
  "lemma": "ἐκλέγομαι",
  "transliteration": "eklégomai",
  "definition": "to select",
  "kjv": "make choice, choose (out), chosen",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G1537",
      "lemma": "ἐκ",
      "transliteration": "ek",
      "meaning": "literal or figurative",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G1537"
    },
    {
      "id": "G3004",
      "lemma": "λέγω",
      "transliteration": "légō",
      "meaning": "to \"lay\" forth",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G3004"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Mark 13:20",
      "text": "Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 6:13",
      "text": "When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named emissaries:",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/6?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 10:42",
      "text": "but one thing is needed. Miriam has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 14:7",
      "text": "He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 6:70",
      "text": "Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/6?v=70"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 13:18",
      "text": "I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/13?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 15:16",
      "text": "You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/15?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 15:19",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/15?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 1:2",
      "text": "until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the emissaries…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 1:24",
      "text": "They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/1?v=24"
    }
  ],
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