{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H977",
  "lemma": "בָּחַר",
  "transliteration": "bâchar",
  "definition": "properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select",
  "kjv": "acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.",
  "occurrences": 153,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "בָּחַר vb. choose",
    "Qal",
    "1. with בְּ,",
    "a. divine choice",
    "b. man’s choice",
    "2. with אֲשֶׁר:",
    "a. divine choice",
    "b. man’s choice",
    "3. with acc. & לְ, choose some one or something for",
    "4. with acc. and מִן, choose, select from",
    "5. acc.",
    "a. divine choice",
    "b. man’s choice",
    "6. with עַל, for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction",
    "7. with לְ of acc. chosen",
    "8. test, try",
    "Niph. to be chosen",
    "Pu. chosen, selected"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:2",
      "text": "God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:11",
      "text": "So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:9",
      "text": "Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 18:25",
      "text": "Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:5",
      "text": "He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:7",
      "text": "put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 17:20",
      "text": "It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/17?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:37",
      "text": "Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=37"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 7:6",
      "text": "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 7:7",
      "text": "The LORD didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=7"
    }
  ],
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