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# מִבְחָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4005

**choicest** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

choicest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4005/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִבְחָר: choicest, best [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4005/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (f. Ez 24:5) choicest, best, cstr. מִבְחַר Dt 12:11 + 10 times; sf. מִבְחָרָיו Dn 11:15; vows Dt 12:11; valleys Is 22:7; fir trees Is 37:24; cedars Je 22:7; bones Ez 24:4; sepulchres Gn 23:6 (P); of the flock Ez 24:5; of the Assyrians Ez 23:7; captains Ex 15:4 (E poet.); young men Je 48:15; מבחר וטוב לבנון Ez 31:16 (del. וטוב 𝔊 Co); עַם מִבְחָרָיו Dn 11:15 = his choice troops.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the choicest (9); \[the\] choicest (1); \[were\] the choicest (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 24:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.4/#tree)

אֱסֹ֤ף נְתָחֶ֙יהָ֙ אֵלֶ֔יהָ כָּל־נֵ֥תַח ט֖וֹב יָרֵ֣ךְ וְכָתֵ֑ף מִבְחַ֥ר עֲצָמִ֖ים מַלֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* gather pieces its into it every piece good thigh and shoulder \[the\].choicest of.\[the\].bones fill.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* Gather into it the pieces belonging to it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

[Isaiah 22:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.7/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י מִבְחַר־עֲמָקַ֖יִךְ מָ֣לְאוּ רָ֑כֶב וְהַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔ים שֹׁ֖ת שָׁ֥תוּ הַשָּֽׁעְרָה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.choicest your.valleys your they.were.full chariotry and the horsemen powerfully.(take.a.stand) they.took.a.stand to the gate

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4005.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4005/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).