Exodus 17:9
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
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Choose
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Philippians 1:22
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
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23 occurrences in 23 verses.
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Exodus
11 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Deuteronomy
2323 verses
Joshua
22 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
2 Samuel
44 verses
1 Kings
33 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Isaiah
77 verses
Ezekiel
21 verses
Zechariah
22 verses
Philippians
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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בָּחַר
bâchar · baw-khar'
50 times translated as this KJV form171 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
Strong's KJV usage: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 16:7Strong's last: Zechariah 2:12
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bârâʼ · baw-raw'
2 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
Strong's KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:19
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hairéomai · hahee-reh'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer
Strong's KJV usage: :--choose.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Philippians 1:22Strong's last: Philippians 1:22
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bâchîyr · baw-kheer'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
select
Strong's KJV usage: choose, chosen one, elect.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 21:6Strong's last: 2 Samuel 21:6
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bârâh · baw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to select; to feed; to render clear
Strong's KJV usage: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:8Strong's last: 1 Samuel 17:8
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qâbal · kaw-bal'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to admit, i.e. take (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: choose, (take) hold, receive, (under-) take.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 21:11Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:11
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H1254
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
H1254
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
English meaning and historical usage.
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choose
CHOOSE, verb transitive
1. To pick out; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more things offered; to make choice of.
The man the Lord doth choose shall be holy. Numbers 16:7.
2. To take in preference.
Let us choose to us judgment. Job 34:4.
3. To prefer; to choose for imitation; to follow.
Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. Proverbs 3:31.
4. To elect for eternal happiness; to predestinate to life.
Many are called but few chosen. Matthew 20:1.
For his elects sake, whom he hath chosen. Mark 13:1.
5. To elect or designate to office or employment by votes or suffrages. In the United States, the people choose representatives by votes, usually by ballot.
CHOOSE, verb intransitive
1. To prefer; as, I choose to go.
2. To have the power of choice. The phrase, he cannot choose but stay, denotes that he has not the power of choice, whether to stay or not.
The verb, in these phrases, is really transitive; the following verb standing as the object, instead of a noun.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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