'Select' in the Bible
Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers and officials over the land, and set aside one-fifth [of the produce] of the [entire] land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take a lamb for yourselves according to [the size of] your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.
“Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I am giving you three choices; select one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.”’”
select the best and most capable of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s [royal] house.”
Therefore, brothers, choose from among you seven men with good reputations [men of godly character and moral integrity], full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.
Then the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their men to go to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas—Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas [also called Silvanus, both], leading men among the brothers.
it has been decided by us, having met together, to select men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
For God has not destined us to [incur His] wrath [that is, He did not select us to condemn us], but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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- Choice (172 instances)
- Choose (144 instances)
- Cull (3 instances)
- Glean (14 instances)
- Prime (13 instances)
- Prize (15 instances)
- Quality (31 instances)
- Select (39 instances)