UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Notes: Passages: OET JOB 34:33 · OET JOB 34:4
RSV NRSV "choose" NJPS GNT CEV "decide" = [1] | NIV "discern" NJB "consider" REB "examine" = [2]; Passage: OET JOB 36:21
RSV Gordis "choose" NIV "prefer" = [1] | NJPS NRSV REB "to try" = pual form בֻּחַרְתָּ = [2]; Passage: OET ECC 9:4
MT-K יבּחר has been variously read (יְבֻחַר pual | יִבָּחֶר niphal) | MT-Q יְחֻבַּר from חבר "to join". Most English versions follow MT-Q (RSV NRSV "is joined with" | NJPS "is reckoned among" | NIV "is among" | REB "is counted among") as also most commentaries. Seouw takes the MT-K as qal, and reads the phrase as interrogative (rhetorical question) "Who is the one who chooses?". Murphy also takes it as interrogative, "who can be set apart?" (understanding בחר here as "to be set apart"). The existence of a pual form has been questioned (cf. Seouw, and Gordis, The Book of Job, 418, on JOB 36:21).; Passage: OET ISA 48:10
NJB "chosen" = [1] | RSV "tried" NIV NJPS NRSV GNT CEV "tested" REB "purified" = [2]

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: בָּחוּר · בְּחוּרִים · בָּחִיר · מִבְחֹור · מִבְחָר

Sense 1: to choose, to prefer

Semantic domains: Select (002004002012)

Core domains: Mind (106)

Definition: = action by which someone makes a selection among several options, which include humans, divine beings, animals, other objects, or events

Forms: vbqal-; vbnif- (passive); vbpual (passive)

Synonyms: אהב · חמד · חפץ · חשׁק · קנא

Antonyms: מאס

Show passage in OET: GEN 6:2

OET-RV GEN 6:2

2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

OET-LV GEN 6:2

2 And_ the _sons _of the_ʼElohīm _they _saw DOM the _daughters _of the_humankind if/because _that were_good they and_they _took to/for_them wives from_all whom they _chose.

Show passage in OET: GEN 13:11

OET-RV GEN 13:11

11 Lot chose all of the Yarden plain for himself, and so he travelled to the east and they separated from each other.

OET-LV GEN 13:11

11 And_he _chose to_him/it Lōţ DOM all _of the _valley _of the _Yardēn and_ Lōţ _he _set _out from_east and_they _separated each from_under his/its_brother.

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All 145 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 6:2 · OET GEN 13:11

EXO: OET EXO 17:9 · OET EXO 18:25

NUM: OET NUM 16:5 · OET NUM 16:7 · OET NUM 17:5

DEU: OET DEU 4:37 · OET DEU 7:6–7 · OET DEU 10:15 · OET DEU 12:5 · OET DEU 12:11 · OET DEU 12:14 · OET DEU 12:18 · OET DEU 12:21 · OET DEU 12:26 · OET DEU 14:2 · OET DEU 14:23–25 · OET DEU 15:20 · OET DEU 16:2 · OET DEU 16:6–7 · OET DEU 16:11 · OET DEU 16:15–16 · OET DEU 17:8 · OET DEU 17:10 · OET DEU 17:15 · OET DEU 18:5–6 · OET DEU 21:5 · OET DEU 23:16 · OET DEU 26:2 · OET DEU 30:19 · OET DEU 31:11

JOS: OET JOS 8:3 · OET JOS 9:27 · OET JOS 24:15 · OET JOS 24:22

JDG: OET JDG 5:8 · OET JDG 10:14

SA1: OET SA1 2:28 · OET SA1 8:18 · OET SA1 10:24 · OET SA1 12:13 · OET SA1 13:2 · OET SA1 16:8–10 · OET SA1 17:40 · OET SA1 20:30

SA2: OET SA2 6:21 · OET SA2 10:9 · OET SA2 15:15 · OET SA2 16:18 · OET SA2 17:1 · OET SA2 19:38 · OET SA2 24:12

KI1: OET KI1 3:8 · OET KI1 8:16 · OET KI1 8:44 · OET KI1 8:48 · OET KI1 11:13 · OET KI1 11:32 · OET KI1 11:34 · OET KI1 11:36 · OET KI1 14:21 · OET KI1 18:23 · OET KI1 18:25

KI2: OET KI2 21:7 · OET KI2 23:27

CH1: OET CH1 15:2 · OET CH1 19:10 · OET CH1 21:10 · OET CH1 28:4–6 · OET CH1 28:10 · OET CH1 29:1

CH2: OET CH2 6:5–6 · OET CH2 6:34 · OET CH2 6:38 · OET CH2 7:12 · OET CH2 7:16 · OET CH2 12:13 · OET CH2 29:11 · OET CH2 33:7

NEH: OET NEH 1:9 · OET NEH 9:7

JOB: OET JOB 7:15 · OET JOB 9:14 · OET JOB 15:5 · OET JOB 29:25 · OET JOB 34:4 · OET JOB 34:33 · OET JOB 36:21

PSA: OET PSA 25:12 · OET PSA 33:12 · OET PSA 47:4 · OET PSA 65:4 · OET PSA 78:67–68 · OET PSA 78:70 · OET PSA 84:10 · OET PSA 89:19 · OET PSA 105:26 · OET PSA 119:30 · OET PSA 119:173 · OET PSA 132:13 · OET PSA 135:4

PRO: OET PRO 1:29 · OET PRO 3:31

ECC: OET ECC 9:4

ISA: OET ISA 1:29 · OET ISA 7:15–16 · OET ISA 14:1 · OET ISA 40:20 · OET ISA 41:8–9 · OET ISA 41:24 · OET ISA 43:10 · OET ISA 44:1–2 · OET ISA 48:10 · OET ISA 49:7 · OET ISA 56:4 · OET ISA 58:5–6 · OET ISA 65:12 · OET ISA 66:3–4

JER: OET JER 8:3 · OET JER 33:24 · OET JER 49:19 · OET JER 50:44

EZE: OET EZE 20:5

HAG: OET HAG 2:23

ZEC: OET ZEC 1:17 · OET ZEC 2:12 · OET ZEC 3:2

Sense 2: choice, picked, to be preferred

Semantic domains: Good (002001001028)

Core domains: Quality (137)

Definition: = state in which an object has been selected for its superior quality

Forms: vbqal-s; vbnif-ptca

Synonyms: טֹוב

Show passage in OET: EXO 14:7

OET-RV EXO 14:7

7 He took 600 of the best chariots as well as all the other Mitsri (Egyptian) chariots and officers to supervise them.

OET-LV EXO 14:7

7 And_he/it _took six hundred(s) chariot[s] chosen and_all/each/any/every the _chariotry _of Miʦrayim and_officers were_over of _it _of_all.

Show passage in OET: PRO 8:10

OET-RV PRO 8:10

10 Choose my instruction over silver,
⇔ ≈ and knowledge rather than shiny gold,

OET-LV PRO 8:10

10 Take discipline _of_my and_not silver and_knowledge more_than _gold chosen.

Jump to OET EXO 14:7 section.

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All 6 recorded passages for this sense

EXO: OET EXO 14:7

PRO: OET PRO 8:10 · OET PRO 8:19 · OET PRO 10:20 · OET PRO 16:16

SNG: OET SNG 5:15

Sense 3: to be preferred

Semantic domains: Well (002001003019)

Core domains: Quality (137)

Definition: = state in which an event is considered superior in quality to other events

Forms: vbnif-ptca

Show passage in OET: PRO 21:3

OET-RV PRO 21:3

3 To do what’s right and fair
⇔ → is more desirable to Yahweh than sacrificing.

OET-LV PRO 21:3

3 To _do righteousness and_justice is_chosen to/for_YHWH more_than _sacrifice.

Show passage in OET: PRO 22:1

OET-RV PRO 22:1

22 A good reputation is more desirable than great wealth,
⇔ ≈ and good favour more than gold or silver.

OET-LV PRO 22:1

22 A _name is_to _be _chosen more_than _wealth great more_than _silver and_more_than _gold favour good.

Jump to OET PRO 21:3 section.

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Sense 4: warrior, soldier

Semantic domains: Soldiers (001001002003013)

Core domains: Warfare (188)

Definition: = person selected from among the young men of a tribe or nation to join the army

Synonyms: אִישׁ שֹׁלֵף חָרֶב · גִּבֹּור · גִּבֹּור חָיִל · גִּבֹּורֵי מִלְחָמָה · יֹוצֵא צָבָא אֹחֵז רֹמַח וְצִנָּה · עֹשֵׂה מִלְחָמָה

Show passage in OET: JDG 20:15

OET-RV JDG 20:15

15 The Benyamites mobilised together twenty-six thousand men from their cities on that day, all carrying swords. In addition, seven hundred chosen men had been mobilised from the Giveah region.

OET-LV JDG 20:15