7 occurrences

'Chosen' in the Bible

Your servant is among Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofBlessings, To AbrahamPeople Of God, In OtUncountableMany In Israel

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the house that I have built for Your Name and Presence,

Verse ConceptsPrinciples Of WarA Place For God's Name

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and they pray to You toward their land [of Israel] which You gave to their fathers, the city [of Jerusalem] which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your Name and Presence;

Verse ConceptsBuilding God's DwellingWhole HeartednessA Place For God's Name

However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe (Judah) to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”

Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of God's People

but he [and his descendants] shall have one tribe (Benjamin was annexed to Judah), for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel—

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidJerusalem, Significance OfFor The Sake Of God's People

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put My Name and Presence.

Verse ConceptsCityJerusalem, Significance OfA Place For God's Name

Now when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he assembled all the [fighting men from the] house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to bring the kingdom back to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Examples OfAssembling IsraelOne Hundred Thousand And MoreReinstating PeopleCivil War

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

בּחר בּחוּר 
Bachuwr 
young man , the chosen , young , not translated
Usage: 46

בּחיר 
Bachiyr 
Usage: 13

בּרר 
Barar 
Usage: 17

מבחר 
Mibchar 
Usage: 11

ἐκλεκτός 
Eklektos 
Usage: 14

ἐκλογή 
Ekloge 
Usage: 6