מִבְחָר mivchar
Hebrew word for “best” · Strong’s H4005 · used 12 times in 12 verses
Meaning
choicest, best; Also means: miv.chor (מִבְחוֹר "choice" H4004)
How it is translated
Glosses given for mivchar in context, with how often each is used:
- choicest 11
- choicest ones 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Daniel | 1 | 0.2 |
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 24 (2), Genesis 23 (1), Exodus 15 (1), Deuteronomy 12 (1), Isaiah 22 (1), Isaiah 37 (1), Jeremiah 22 (1), Jeremiah 48 (1), Ezekiel 23 (1), Ezekiel 31 (1)
Forms
- מבחר 8
- ומבחר 2
- במבחר 1
- מבחריו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mivchar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- לְבָנוֹן levanon “Lebanon” 2
- אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 2
- רֶכֶב rekhev “chariot” 2
- עֶצֶם etsem “bone” 2
- מָלֵא male “to fill” 2
- כָּרַת karat “to cut” 2
- יָרַד yarad “to go down” 2
- תָּוֶךְ tavekh “midst” 2
- טוֹב tov “pleasant” 2
- שֵׁם shem “name” 2
- עָלָה alah “to ascend” 2
- עִיר ir “city” 2
Key verses
The verses using mivchar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 23:6 — Hear 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…
- Exodus 15:4 — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 — Then 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…
- Isaiah 22:7 — And 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 37:24 — By 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…
- Jeremiah 22:7 — And 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.
- Jeremiah 48:15 — Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
- Ezekiel 23:7 — Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled…
- Ezekiel 24:4 — Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
- Ezekiel 24:5 — Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
- Ezekiel 31:16 — I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice…
- Daniel 11:15 — 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…
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.