Hebrew

Choice

מִבְחוֹרStrong’s H4004

mivchor (miv-chor)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mivchor is the Hebrew word usually translated “choice” and “choice of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.”

2 Kings 3:19 KJV

Meaning

Choice

How it's translated

choice 1
choice of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Kings 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

2 Kings 19:23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

Hebrew dictionary

מִבְחוֹר mivchor · choice

choice Another spelling of miv.char (מִבְחָר "best" H4005)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “choice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CHOICE, noun

The act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; or the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.“Ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my moth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe” Acts 15:7
The power of choosing; option.
Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference.
The thing chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

All definitions and other forms of “choice”

The best part of any thing; that which is preferable, and properly the object of choice“In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead” Genesis 23:6
The act of electing to office by vote; election.

CHOICE, adjective

Worthy of being preferred; select; precious; very valuable.“My revenue is better than choice silver” Proverbs 8:19
Holding dear; preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; as, to be choice of time or of advantages.
Selecting with care, and due attention to preference; as, to be choice of ones company.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.