Word Study · Strong's H4004 · Hebrew
מִבְחוֹר
mibchor
mib-khore'
Strong's 1890 spelling: mibchôwr
“select, i.e. well fortified”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
select, i.e. well fortified
Rendered in the KJV as
choice.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- מִבְח֔וֹר1
- מִבְח֣וֹר1
How it is rendered · 2
- [the] choice of1
- choice1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular1
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
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- HNcmsa · 1
- HNcmsc · 1
All 2, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
- 2 Kings 3:19מִבְח֔וֹרmivchornoun · masculine singularAnd you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”here: choice
- 2 Kings 19:23מִבְח֣וֹרmivchornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.here: [the] choice of