Greek verb · G138
G138
to choose
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G138is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G138
to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer
The King James renders it: choose.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
G138 is rendered "to choose". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Philippians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Philippians 1:22But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.
Philippians 1:22αἱρήσομαι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Philippians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- has chosen1
- having chosen1
- will I choose1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- αἱρήσομαι1
- εἵλατο1
- ἑλόμενος1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-2AMP-NSM
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AMI-3S
- verb · future middle, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FMI-1S
Philippians
one use
But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.
- αἱρήσομαιhairesomaiverb · future middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will I choose
2 Thessalonians
one use
But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- εἵλατοeilatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has chosen
Hebrews
one use
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
- ἑλόμενοςhelomenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having chosen
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.