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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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.
Read in context →But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
Read in context →23 occurrences in 23 verses.
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bâchar · baw-khar'
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
Strong's KJV usage: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.
Strong's first: Numbers 16:7Strong's last: Zechariah 2:12
Open full H977 profile →bârâʼ · baw-raw'
(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
Open full H1254 profile →hairéomai · hahee-reh'-om-ahee
to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer
Strong's KJV usage: :--choose.
Strong's first: Philippians 1:22Strong's last: Philippians 1:22
Open full G138 profile →bâchîyr · baw-kheer'
select
Strong's KJV usage: choose, chosen one, elect.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 21:6Strong's last: 2 Samuel 21:6
Open full H972 profile →bârâh · baw-raw'
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
Open full H1262 profile →qâbal · kaw-bal'
to admit, i.e. take (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: choose, (take) hold, receive, (under-) take.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 21:11Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:11
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When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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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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