25 occurrences

'Choose' in the Bible

Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofFew PeopleMany In IsraelGod's Love For IsraelAffection

But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;

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

then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah 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 Jehovah.

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

but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

Verse ConceptsEating Before GodEating Drinking And Rejoicing

If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose:

And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God always.

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

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee;

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyFinancesTithes And OfferingChanging YourselfGiving BackMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesEating Before GodFamily First

And thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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

but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsA Place For God's Nameanniversary

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Verse Conceptscooking

and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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

Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

Verse ConceptsSeven Days

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:

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

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesHard Tasks

And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee:

Verse ConceptsKeeping Man's Word

thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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

when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Verse ConceptsChoicesPilgrimageReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐκλέγομαι 
Eklegomai 
Usage: 14

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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