Haireomai means “choose” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H138 — adoniah (“Adonijah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G138 αἱρέομαι (haireomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. haireomai (hai-reh'-om-ai) (Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai hel'-lom-ai; which is otherwise obsolete) v. 1. to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer [probably akin to G142] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include is and are. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
haireomai (hai-reh'-om-ai) (Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai hel'-lom-ai; which is otherwise obsolete) v. 1. to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer [probably akin to G142] KJV: choose Compare: G1209, G2983 See also: G142
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G138. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to choose
Usage: αἱρέω, [in LXX for אמר hi., בּחר, etc. ;] to take; Mid., -ομαι (M, Pr., 158 f.; MM, VGT, see word), to choose: Php.1:22, 2Th.2:13, Heb.11:25. (Cf. ἀν-, ἀφ-, δι-, ἐξ-, καθ-, περι-, προ-αιρέω.) † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render haireomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G138 (αἱρέομαι) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his voice.
And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;
But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose to yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom ye dwell upon their land: but I and my house will serve the Lord, for he is holy.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G138.
Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his voice.
And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;
But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose to yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom ye dwell upon their land: but I and my house will serve the Lord, for he is holy.
And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, to slay David.
And the king’s servants said to the king, In all things which our lord the king chooses, behold we are thy servants.
Let us choose judgment to ourselves: Let us know among ourselves what is right.
For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.
because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G138, grouped by book.
Haireomai (Strong's G138) is a Greek word most simply glossed "choose". haireomai (hai-reh'-om-ai) (Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai hel'-lom-ai; which is otherwise obsolete) v. 1. to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer [probably akin to G142]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G138 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G138 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as is and are. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G138, with linked reader references where each row is available.