Greek word · G140

αἱρετίζω

hairetizō

to choose

Appears once in the Greek New Testament.

What it means

αἱρετίζω,

[in LXX chiefly for בּחר (see Cremer, 615) ;] = αἱρέομαι (Hipp., Inscr.),

to choose: Matthew 12:18 (LXX, ἀντιλήμψομαι).†

(AS)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Matthew · 1

  1. Matthew 12:18 ᾑρέτισα, I have chosen,

    “Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

    Here: 'I chose', a single decisive act of picking someone out. This verb appears nowhere else in the New Testament. In the Greek Old Testament it renders Hebrew bachar, the word used when God chooses Israel, a king or a priest.

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