בָּחִיר
bâchîyr · H972 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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chosen, elect
Individual or group of people especially selected and appointed for a certain purpose
Examples2 Samuel 21:6 let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will hang them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
1 Chronicles 16:13 You descendants of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
Psalm 89:3 “I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to My servant David,
How it’s used In 5 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
13 occurrences in 4 groups
- יmy 7
- הוּhis 4
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- ךָyour 1
Named alongside itApposition
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- בֵּןson 2
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
- מֹשֶׁהMoses 1
- עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
- עַםpeople 1
- שָׁאוּלSaul 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּלָהto wear out 1
- יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐκλεκτός eklektós · G1588 · chosen
- Greek ἐκλεκτός renders Hebrew בָּחִיר as the standard translation equivalent for the concept of election/being chosen, particularly in contexts of divine selection; both terms denote the quality or status of having been selected/chosen with favor.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dissociate002003002009
- The word denotes one who is chosen or set apart from others, as the seven sons handed over are called part of Saul's line while the king himself is 'the chosen of the LORD' in 2 Samuel 21:6, and Israel's descendants are called God's 'chosen ones' in 1 Chronicles 16:13, fitting this domain's sense of being singled out or separated from the larger group.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H972. bachir [בָּחִיר] noun masculine chosen, construct בְּחִיר 2Sa 21:6 (but We Dr י…
[בָּחִיר] noun masculine chosen, construct בְּחִיר 2Sa 21:6 (but We Dr י ׳בְּהַר); suffix בְּחִירָיו 1Ch 16:13; Psa 89:4; Psa 105:6; Psa 105:43; Psa 106:5; Psa 106:23; Isa3, Isa 42:1; Isa 43:20; Isa 45:4; Isa 65:9, Isa 65:15, Isa 65:22; always the chosen or elect of Yahweh.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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