Bible Dictionary: Choosing

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choose.

Greek

1589. ekloge -- a (divine) selection
... a (divine) selection. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: ekloge Phonetic
Spelling: (ek-log-ay') Short Definition: a choosing out, selecting, choice ...
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138. haireo -- to take, choose
... take.]. Word Origin a prim. verb Definition to take, choose NASB Word Usage
choose (1), choosing (1), chosen (1). choose. Probably ...
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4400. procheirizo -- to put into the hand, to take into one's hand ...
... 4400 (from 4253 , "before" and 5495, "hand") -- properly, "hand-picked before."
4400 ("divinely hand-picked") refers to choosing people to be (like the Paul). ...
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1365. distazo -- twenty thousand
... 1365 (from 1364 , "two, double" and 4714 , "stance, standing") -- properly, going
two ways, shifting between positions; choosing "a double-stance" and hence ...
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25. agapao -- to love
... Cognate: 25 -- properly, to , to ; for the believer, "" (1 Jn 4:9,10), ie embracing
God's will (choosing His choices) and obeying them through His power. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

977. bachar -- to choose
... root Definition to choose NASB Word Usage choice (6), choicest (2), choose (40),
chooses (22), choosing (1), chose (21), chosen (67), desired (2), men (1 ...
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Library

Choosing the Tens
... CHAPTER I CHOOSING THE TENS. Near the eastern boundary of that level region
of northern Egypt, known as the Delta, once thridded ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter i choosing the tens.htm

Choosing the Better Part.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CXLIV. Choosing the Better Part. 8.8.8.8 James Montgomery.
Choosing the Better Part. The one thing needful be our choice,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cxliv choosing the better.htm

Jesus Choosing his Friends.
... CHAPTER V. JESUS CHOOSING HIS FRIENDS. ... Give earth yourself, go up for gain above.
BROWNING. Nothing in life is more important than the choosing of friends. ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter v jesus choosing his.htm

Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or for Planting, or ...
... Book V. Chapter 7."Concerning the Choosing of a Day for Marriage, or
for Planting, or Sowing. Now, will any one bring forward ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 7 concerning the choosing of.htm

Choosing the Better Part.
... DEVOUT EXERCISES. 455. " Choosing the Better Part. 455. LM Doddridge.
Choosing the Better Part. 1 Beset with snares on every ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/455 choosing the better.htm

Choosing the Heritage of God's People.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN LI. Choosing the Heritage of God's People. 7.7.7.7 D James
Montgomery. Choosing the Heritage of God's People. People of the living God,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn li choosing the heritage.htm

By Choosing a Man May be Turned and Converted into Love
... THE FOURTH CENTURY 80 By choosing a man may be turned and converted into
Love. By choosing a man may be turned and converted into ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/80 by choosing a man.htm

Choosing Her Course
... II CHOOSING HER COURSE. From babyhood Kate Lee had been a delicate little
mortal; she was so timid that even the visits of relatives ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/ii choosing her course.htm

He did Wrong, when Mentioning the Doctrines of Salvation, in ...
... He did wrong, when mentioning the Doctrines of Salvation, in adopting terms of his
own choosing instead of the traditional terms Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 14 he did wrong.htm

Whether it is More Grievous to Sin through Certain Malice than ...
... Objection 3: Further, to sin through certain malice is to sin through choosing
evil. Now he that sins through passion, also chooses evil. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is more grievous.htm

Thesaurus

Choosing (6 Occurrences)
...Choosing (6 Occurrences). Luke 14:7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking
how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, (YLT). ...
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Choose (116 Occurrences)
... 1. Human Choice: For bachar and its derivatives: men choosing wives (Genesis 6:2);
Lot choosing the cities of the Plain (Genesis 13:11); often of kings and ...
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Chosen (197 Occurrences)
... 1. Human Choice: For bachar and its derivatives: men choosing wives (Genesis 6:2);
Lot choosing the cities of the Plain (Genesis 13:11); often of kings and ...
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Election (6 Occurrences)
... (see PREDESTINATION.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The act of choosing; choice;
selection. ... 3. (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. ...
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Volition
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act
of forming a purpose; as, to choose on one's own volition. ...
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Will (64996 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it
is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to ...
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Choice (113 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or
more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in ...
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Rome (12 Occurrences)
... step in the progress of the plebeians toward political equality was taken when they
wrested from the patricians the privilege of choosing representatives from ...
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Chooseth (19 Occurrences)

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Chop (5 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Choosing (6 Occurrences)

Luke 14:7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
(YLT)

Romans 9:22 And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction,
(WEY NIV)

Hebrews 11:25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Peter 1:10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
(See NAS)

1 Kings 12:33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
(See NIV)

Job 9:14 How much less shall I answer Him, and choose out my arguments with Him?
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Related Terms

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