H4005 - מִבְחָר (mibchâr)

H4005 מִבְחָר (mibchâr) mib-khawr'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

best

Strong's Definition

select, i.e. best

Derivation: from H977 (בָּחַר);

KJV Usage: choice(-st), chosen.

TWOT Reference: 231d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) choicest, best

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1413

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

choicest, best Also means: miv.chor (מִבְחוֹר "choice" H4004)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִבְחָר mibchâr BDB Definition: 1) choicest, best Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H977 Same Word by TWOT Number: 231d Total KJV Occurrences: 14

Bible Occurrences (12)

23:6

15:4

12:11

22:7 37:24

22:7 48:15

23:7 24:4 24:5 31:16

11:15

Genesis 23:6

Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead... in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.

Exodus 15:4

Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there... you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts..., and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

Isaiah 22:7

Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted... at the gates.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.

Jeremiah 22:7

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

Jeremiah 48:15

Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name [is] the LORD of Hosts.

Ezekiel 23:7

She offered sexual favors to all the elite... of Assyria. She defiled herself with all... the idols of those for whom she lusted.