# H977 בָּחַר

בָּחַר (bâchar), Strong’s H977: properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select KJV: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.. Occurs 153 times.

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*bâchar* — properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select

KJV: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

Occurs 153 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=2) — God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
- [Genesis 13:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=11) — So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.
- [Exodus 17:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=9) — 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…
- [Exodus 18:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=25) — Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds…
- [Numbers 16:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=5) — 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…
- [Numbers 16:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=7) — put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he…
- [Numbers 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/17?v=20) — It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of…
- [Deuteronomy 4:37](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=37) — Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence…
- [Deuteronomy 7:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=6) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/7?v=7) — 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…