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Greek G139 haíresis

Original: αἵρεσις

Meaning:
from αἱρέομαι; properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion:--heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion:--heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect.

Greek G140 hairetízō

Original: αἱρετίζω

Meaning:
from a derivative of αἱρέομαι; to make a choice:--choose.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to make a choice:--choose.

Greek G1586 eklégomai

Original: ἐκλέγομαι

Meaning:
middle voice from ἐκ and λέγω (in its primary sense); to select:--make choice, choose (out), chosen.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to select:--make choice, choose (out), chosen.

Hebrew H970 bâchûwr

Original: בָּחוּר

Meaning:
or בָּחֻר; participle passive of בָּחַר; properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective); (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: (choice) young (man), chosen, [idiom] hole.

Hebrew H977 bâchar

Original: בָּחַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select; acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

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Hebrew H1249 bar

Original: בַּר

Meaning:
from בָּרַר (in its various senses); beloved; also pure, empty; choice, clean, clear, pure.

Hebrew H1305 bârar

Original: בָּרַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select; make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out).

Hebrew H4004 mibchôwr

Original: מִבְחוֹר

Meaning:
from בָּחַר; select, i.e. well fortified; choice.

Hebrew H4005 mibchâr

Original: מִבְחָר

Meaning:
from בָּחַר; select, i.e. best; choice(-st), chosen.

Hebrew H8321 sôrêq

Original: שֹׂרֵק

Meaning:
or שׂוֹרֵק; and (feminine) שֹׂרֵקָה; from שָׁרַק in the sense of redness (compare שָׂרֻק); a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety); choice(-st, noble) wine. Compare שָׂרוּק.

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^{Genesis 23:6} Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. Open

^{Genesis 49:11} Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: Open

^{Deuteronomy 12:11} Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: Open

^{1 Samuel 9:2} And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. Open

^{2 Samuel 10:9} When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians: Open

^{2 Kings 3:19} And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones. Open

^{2 Kings 19:23} By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. Open

^{1 Chronicles 7:40} All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men. Open

^{1 Chronicles 19:10} Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians. Open

^{2 Chronicles 25:5} Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. Open

^{Nehemiah 5:18} Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. Open

^{Proverbs 8:10} Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Open

^{Proverbs 8:19} My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. Open

^{Proverbs 10:20} The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. Open

^{Song of Solomon 6:9} My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. Open

^{Isaiah 37:24} By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel. Open

^{Jeremiah 22:7} And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. Open

^{Ezekiel 24:4} Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. Open

^{Ezekiel 24:5} Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. Open

^{Ezekiel 31:16} I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. Open

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^{Acts 15:7} And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. Open

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