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בָּחַר
bâchar · Hebrew · Strong's H977 · 170 occurrences
The KJV renders 23 different Hebrew and Greek words as “appoint”
What it means
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
acceptable, appoint, choose, excellent, join, be rather, require
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“appoint”
also renders hístēmi (G2476), poiéō (G4160), títhēmi (G5087), syntássō (G4929), diatíthemai (G1303), diatássō (G1299), anadeíknymi (G322), kathístēmi (G2525), tássō (G5021), dâbar (H1696), zâman (H2163), yâdaʻ (H3045), yâkach (H3198), yâçad (H3245), nâqab (H5344), nâthan (H5414), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâqad (H6485), tsâvâh (H6680), qûwm (H6966), qârâh (H7136), shîyth (H7896)
“choose”
also renders hairéomai (G138), procheirízomai (G4400), cheirotonéō (G5500), epilégomai (G1951), hairetízō (G140), eklégomai (G1586), bâchîyr (H972), bârâʼ (H1254)
“excellent”
“join”
“require”
“acceptable”
also renders euárestos (G2101), cháris (G5485), apódektos (G587), euprósdektos (G2144), chêphets (H2656)
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Where it appears
170 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 15:2 · HVqp3ms
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
1 Chronicles 19:10 · HC/Vqw3ms
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose some of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
1 Chronicles 21:10 · HVqv2ms
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
1 Chronicles 28:4 · HC/Vqw3ms
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:5 · HC/Vqw3ms
Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:6 · HVqp1cs
He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
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