Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
best
Usage: choicest, best Also means: miv.chor (מִבְחוֹר "choice" H4004)
Mibchar means “chosen” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4005 — pentekoste (“Pentecost”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4005 מִבחָר (mibchar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mibchar (mib-khawr') n-m. 1. select, i.e. best [from H977] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include choice, chosen, and best. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mibchar (mib-khawr') n-m. 1. select, i.e. best [from H977] KJV: choice(-st), chosen. Root(s): H977
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best
Usage: choicest, best Also means: miv.chor (מִבְחוֹר "choice" H4004)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mibchar, 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 Old Testament. 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.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 thou mayest bury thy dead.
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
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 offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4005.
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 thou mayest bury thy dead.
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
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 offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
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.
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 Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
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.
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.
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 herself.
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
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.
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 and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
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 people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4005, grouped by book.
Mibchar (Strong's H4005) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "chosen". mibchar (mib-khawr') n-m. 1. select, i.e. best [from H977]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H4005 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4005 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as choice, chosen, and best. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.