mivchar · choicest, best

What it means

mivchar (מִבְחָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “choicest, best”.

The best, the choicest.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The most valuable part of something, set apart as the best.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• choicest ×10
• choice ×2
• nor its chosen ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 23:6

  “Hear us, my lord: you are a chief of Elohim among us. In the choicest of our graves bury your dead. No one of us will withhold his grave from you for burying your dead.”

• Exodus 15:4

  Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has cast into the sea; and his choicest captains were sunk in the Sea of Reeds.

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  Then to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all the choicest of your vows that you vow to YHWH.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• Isaiah 22:7

  And it came to be that the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen firmly took up their positions at the gate.

• Isaiah 37:24

  Through your servants you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter the height of its farthest end, the forest of its orchard.

• Jeremiah 22:7

  And I will consecrate against you destroyers, each with his weapons; and they will cut down your choicest cedars and make them fall into the fire.

• Jeremiah 48:15

  Moab is devastated, and one has gone up against her cities, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughter, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Ezekiel 23:7

  And she bestowed her prostitutions on them, the choicest of the sons of Assyria, all of them; and with all for whom she was infatuated, with all their idols, she defiled herself.

• Ezekiel 24:4

  Gather its pieces into it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder; with the choicest of the bones fill it.

• Ezekiel 24:5

  Take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; let its boiling boil; also let its bones be cooked in its midst.

• Ezekiel 31:16

  At the sound of its fall I made nations quake, when I brought it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and they were comforted in the land below, all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all who drink water.

• Daniel 11:15

  And the king of the north will come and pour out a siege ramp and capture a fortified city; and the arms of the south will not stand, nor its chosen people, and there will be no strength to stand.