# G1586 ἐκλέγομαι

ἐκλέγομαι (eklégomai), Strong’s G1586: to select KJV: make choice, choose (out), chosen. Occurs 21 times.

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*eklégomai* — to select

KJV: make choice, choose (out), chosen

Built from [ἐκ ek](https://besorah.bible/word/G1537) (literal or figurative) + [λέγω légō](https://besorah.bible/word/G3004) (to "lay" forth)

Occurs 21 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Mark 13:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/6?v=13) — When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named emissaries:
- [Luke 10:42](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=42) — but one thing is needed. Miriam has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
- [Luke 14:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/6?v=70) — Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- [John 13:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/1?v=24) — They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen