48 occurrences in 8 translations

'Chooses' in the Bible

Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters.

Verse Conceptsdaughters

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will reveal who belongs to Him, who is set apart, and the one He will let come near Him. He will let the one He chooses come near Him.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingMorningGod's Action TomorrowPeople Belong To God

place fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord. Then the man the Lord chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far!”

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth In

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

Verse ConceptsChoicesHousesWorship, Places OfSacred PlacesA Place For God's Name

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

Verse ConceptsGiftsChoicesOfferingsSacred PlacesAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingBringing In The TitheRegulating SacrificesA Place For God's NameTithes And Offering

You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do,

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the Lord chooses.

You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of Yahweh your God at the place where He chooses to have His name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far away from you and since the Lord your God has blessed you,

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

Each year you and your family are to eat it before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesEating Before GodFamily First

Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofChoicesSacred PlacesA Place For God's Name

You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where Yahweh your God chooses to have His name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsA Place For God's Nameanniversary

You are to cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.

Verse Conceptscooking

Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place He chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.

Verse ConceptsSeven Days

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsFeasting On Special OccasionsLaw, OtPilgrimageWorship, Times ForMen WorshippingEmpty HandedThree Times A YearFestivals Observedvacation

“If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults—cases disputed at your gates, you must go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesHard Tasks

You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Man's Word

you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,

Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don't mistreat him."

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

"If a man chooses to enter into marriage with a woman, but she finds herself displeasing to him because he has found something objectionable about her, he must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her out of his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

you must take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.

Verse ConceptsChoicesBaskets, Uses OfWorship, Places OfA Place For God's NameFirst fruits

when all Israel assembles in the presence of the Lord your God at the place He chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.

Verse ConceptsChoicesPilgrimageReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

"Look!" the king's staff replied. "Your servants will do whatever the king chooses."

Verse ConceptsChoosing Things

He chooses for us our inheritance—the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.Selah

Verse ConceptsPsalm InterjectionsGod's Love For Israel

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Verse ConceptsGod's DwellingAvoid Envy

To the impoverished person? He prepares an offering wood that won't rot Or to the one who chooses a skilled craftsman and seeks to erect an idol that won't topple?"

Verse ConceptsUnreliabilityWisdom, Human NaturedissatisfactionMotionlessnessSkilled PeopleNo DecayMoving Oncraftsmanshipimage

Look, you are nothingand your work is worthless.Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Verse ConceptsIdols Not ExistingUseless Idols

He cuts down cedars, or chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. Or he plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.

Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

And [through him] I will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them (Egyptian idols) captive. He will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will go away from there safely.

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyShepherds, As OccupationsBurning Idolatrous Things

And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Even the Lord, who [now and ever] has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this not a log snatched and rescued from the fire?”

Verse Conceptsevil, victory overSatan, As The Enemy Of GodPlucking OutSaved From FireGod Requite Them!rebukingbranding

Then came some of the Pharisees to Him to put Him to the proof by the question, "Has a man a right to divorce his wife whenever he chooses?"

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersTestingJewish SectsSnares Laid For ChristTesting ChristDivorce PermittedPharisees Concerned About ChristWhy People Did Things

All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Verse ConceptsGospel, Essence OfKnowing God, Nature OfAuthority Of ChristChrist Knowing GodNot Knowing About ChristWho Is God?God Giving To The SonInteraction Of Father And SonWho He Might BeThe Father's Activity Regarding ChristKnowing God's Character

Therefore, God has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.

Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeopleMind, Of GodGod Will Show MercyGod Works His WillMercyMercy And Grace

The faith which you have [that gives you freedom of choice], have as your own conviction before God [just keep it between yourself and God, seeking His will]. Happy is he who has no reason to condemn himself for what he approves.

Verse ConceptsConsciences, In Decision MakingParticipation, In SinChristian LibertyConvictionLoving YourselfKeeping FaithBelieving In YourselfJudgementJudging Others Actionscondemnationconsciencebelief

All these things [the gifts, the achievements, the abilities, the empowering] are brought about by one and the same [Holy] Spirit, distributing to each one individually just as He chooses.

Verse ConceptsIndependenceHoly Spirit, Types OfGod WillingDividing Spiritual BlessingsGod Works His WillSpiritual Giftsempowerment

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak [frail, sinful, dying men], but the word of the oath [of God], which came after [the institution of] the Law, permanently appoints [as priest] a Son who has been made perfect forever.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Perfection OfPriesthood, In NtConsecrationUnblemishmentChrist Made PerfectRivers

So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.

Verse ConceptsWindShipsBig ThingsSmall ThingsMarinersThe TongueDirectionStaying Strong During Hard Timessailing

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Choose (144 instances)
Chooses (48 instances)
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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

ἐκλέγομαι 
Eklegomai 
Usage: 14

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

בּרה 
Barah 
eat , choose , give , cause to eat
Usage: 7

קבל 
Qabal 
Usage: 13

αἱρέομαι 
Haireomai 
Usage: 3

αἱρετίζω 
Hairetizo 
Usage: 1

ἐπιλέγομαι 
Epilegomai 
be called , choose
Usage: 2

προχειρίζομαι 
Procheirizomai 
Usage: 1

προχειροτονέω 
Procheirotoneo 
Usage: 1

χειροτονέω 
Cheirotoneo 
Usage: 2

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