Choice
מִבְחוֹרStrong’s H4005mivchor (miv-chor)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mivchor is the Hebrew word usually translated “choicest of”, “choicest” and “choicest ones his”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.”
Meaning
- Choice
How it's translated
- choicest of 7
- and choicest of 2
- in choicest of 1
- choicest 1
- choicest ones his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:6Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Exodus 15:4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- Deuteronomy 12:11Then there shall be a place which the LORD 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 the LORD:
- Isaiah 22:7And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
- Isaiah 37:24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Jeremiah 22:7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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.