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Gematria of Chosen

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “chosen” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 77 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
77
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “chosen”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

בָּחוּרbâchûwr×46 in the TanakhH970

properly, selected, i.e. a youth (often collective)

Standard 216 →Gadol 216Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 36Atbash 443Perati 40,104Milui 1,353

First appearance ·Deuteronomy 32:25דברים לב:כהבָּחוּר

See all 25 occurrences of the spelling בחור →

בָּרַרbârar×18 in the TanakhH1305

to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select

Standard 402 →Gadol 402Katan 6Siduri (ordinal) 42Atbash 306Perati 80,004Milui 1,432

First appearance ·2 Samuel 22:27שמואל ב כב:כזנָבָר

מִבְחָרmibchâr×13 in the TanakhH4005

select, i.e. best

Standard 250 →Gadol 250Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 43Atbash 373Perati 41,668Milui 1,420

First appearance ·Genesis 23:6בראשית כג:ובְּמִבְחַר

See all 9 occurrences of the spelling מבחר →

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What is the gematria of chosen?

The Tanakh renders “chosen” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: בחור = 216, ברר = 402 and מבחר = 250.

How do you say chosen in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “chosen”; the most frequent are בחור (bâchûwr), 46 times; ברר (bârar), 18 times; מבחר (mibchâr), 13 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.