מִבְחָר
mibchâr · H4005 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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choice, picked, to be preferred
State in which persons or objects have been selected for their superior competencies or quality
ExamplesGenesis 23:6 “Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”
Exodus 15:4 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has thrown into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
Deuteronomy 12:11 then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring everything that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings which you will vow to the LORD.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
12 occurrences in 12 groups
- Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָדַרto make a vow 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כֹּלall, every, whole 1
- שָׁתָהto drink 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- טָבַעto sink 1
- יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
- מָלֵאto be full, to fill 1
- נָחַםto comfort, to relent, to be sorry 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 2
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַםpeople 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מֵיטָב mêyṭâb · H4315 · best
- Both words denote superlative quality or selection ('choice' or 'chosen' and 'best'), expressing high value or optimal selection.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐκλεκτός eklektós · G1588 · chosen
- Greek ἐκλεκτός renders Hebrew מִבְחָר in contexts denoting select or chosen status; both terms convey the quality of being specially chosen or of superior choice, with מִבְחָר emphasizing the superlative nature ('choicest') and ἐκλεκτός the act of selection ('select, elect').
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Good002001001031
- מִבְחָר means choice or chosen, as in Isaiah 22:7's "your choicest valleys," placing it among terms describing something select or excellent.
- Names of People003001007
- The source data also assigns this entry the Names of People domain, reflecting the identically spelled personal name Mibhar (2 Samuel 23:36/1 Chronicles 11:38), though this entry's own sampled citations attest only the 'choice' sense.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4005. mibchar [מִבְחָר] noun [masculine] (feminine Eze 24:5) choicest, best, construct…
[מִבְחָר] noun [masculine] (feminine Eze 24:5) choicest, best, construct מִבְחַר Deu 12:11 Deu 12:10t.; suffix מִבְחָרָיו Dan 11:15; vows Deu 12:11; valleys Isa 22:7; fir trees Isa 37:24; cedars Jer 22:7; bones Eze 24:4; sepulchres Gen 23:6 (P); of the flock Eze 24:5; of the Assyrians Eze 23:7; captains Exo 15:4 (E poetry); young men Jer 48:15; לבנון וטוב מבחר Eze 31:16 (strike out ᵐ5 וטוב Co); מִבְחָרָיו עַם Dan 11:15 = his choice troops.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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