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Lexicon :: Strong's G1588 - eklektos

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ἐκλεκτός
Transliteration
eklektos (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-lek-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:181,505

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκλεκτός eklektós, ek-lek-tos'; from G1586; select; by implication, favorite:—chosen, elect.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G1588 in the following manner: elect (16x), chosen (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G1588 in the following manner: elect (16x), chosen (7x).

  1. picked out, chosen

    1. chosen by God,

      1. to obtain salvation through Christ

        1. Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God

      2. the Messiah is called "elect", as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable

      3. choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκλεκτός eklektós, ek-lek-tos'; from G1586; select; by implication, favorite:—chosen, elect.
STRONGS G1588:
ἐκλεκτός, ἐκλεκτή, ἐκλεκτόν (ἐκλέγω), picked out, chosen; rare in Greek writ:, as Thucydides 6, 100; Plato, legg. 11, p. 938 b.; 12, 948 a., etc.; the Sept. for בָּחוּר and בָּחִיר; in the N. T.
1. chosen by God, and
a. to obtain salvation through Christ (see ἐκλέγω); hence, Christians are called οἱ ἐκλεκτοί τοῦ Θεοῦ, the chosen or elect of God (cf. Winer's Grammar, 35 (34); 234 (219)), (יְהוָה בְּחִירֵי, said of pious Israelites Isaiah 65:9, 15, 23; Psalm 104:43 (Ps. 105:43), cf. Wis. 4:15): Luke 18:7; Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12; Titus 1:1; without the genitive Θεοῦ, Matthew 24:22, 24; Mark 13:20, 22; 1 Peter 1:1; with the addition of τοῦ Χριστοῦ, as the genitive of possessor, Matthew 24:31; Mark 13:27 (T Tr omit the genitive); κλητοί καί ἐκλεκτοί καί πιστοί, Revelation 17:14; γένος ἐκλεκτόν, 1 Peter 2:9 (from Isaiah 43:20, cf. Additions to Esther 8:40 [Esther 8:368:12t] (Esth. 6:17, p. 64, Fritzsche edition)); ἐκλεκτοί, those who have become true partakers of the Christian salvation are contrasted with κλητοί, those who have been invited but who have not shown themselves fitted to obtain it (others regard the 'called' and the 'chosen' here as alike partakers of salvation, but the latter as the 'choice ones' (see 2 below), distinguished above the former; cf. James Morison or Meyer at the passage), Matthew 20:16 (here T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); Matt 22:14; finally, those are called ἐκλεκτοί who are destined for salvation but have not yet been brought to it, 2 Timothy 2:10 (but cf. Huther or Ellicott at the passage).
b. The Messiah is called preeminently ὁ ἐκλεκτός τοῦ Θεοῦ, as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable: Luke 23:35, cf. Luke 9:35 L marginal reading T Tr WH; cf. Dillmann, Das Buch Henoch (übers. u. erkhärt; allgem. Einl.), p. 23:
c. Angels are called ἐκλεκτοί, as those whom God has chosen out from other created beings to be peculiarly associated with him, and his highest ministers in governing the universe: 1 Timothy 5:21; see ἅγιος, 1 b.; μαρτύρομαι δέ ἐγώ μέν ὑμῶν τά ἅγια καί τούς ἱερούς ἀγγέλους τοῦ Θεοῦ, Josephus, b. j. 2, 16, 4 under the end; (yet others explain by 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; cf. Ellicott on 1 Timothy, the passage cited).
2. universally, choice, select, i. e. the best of its kind or class, excellent, preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians, 2 John 1:1, 13; with ἐν κυρίῳ added, eminent as a Christian (see ἐν, I. 6 b.), Romans 16:13; of things: λίθος, 1 Peter 2:4 (6) (Isaiah 28:16; 2 Esdr. 5:8; Enoch, chapter 8 Greek text, Dillmann edition, p. 82f).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
105:43
Isaiah
2; 28:16; 43:20; 65:9; 65:15; 65:23
Matthew
20:16; 22:14; 24:22; 24:24; 24:31
Mark
13:20; 13:22; 13:27
Luke
9:35; 18:7; 23:35
Romans
8:33; 16:13
Colossians
3:12
1 Timothy
5:21
2 Timothy
2:10
Titus
1:1
1 Peter
1:1; 2:4; 2:9
2 Peter
2:4
2 John
1:1; 1:13
Jude
1:6
Revelation
17:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1588 matches the Greek ἐκλεκτός (eklektos),
which occurs 80 times in 77 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 23:6–Isa 49:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and well-favored; and they fed in the reed-grass:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah 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 Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8 - And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:27 -
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:23 - ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:13 -
O ye seed of Israel his servant,
Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8 - And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goeth on with diligence and prospereth in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:11 -
Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture;
He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:26 -
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 -
When the anger of God went up against them,
And slew of the fattest of them,
And smote down the young men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:3 -
I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:19 -
Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:6 -
O ye seed of Abraham his servant,
Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:43

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:43 -
And he brought forth his people with joy,
And his chosen with singing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:5 -
That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
That I may glory with thine inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 -
Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 -
Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
To practise deeds of wickedness
With men that work iniquity:
And let me not eat of their dainties.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 -
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold;
And my revenue than choice silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:24 -
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule;
But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

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The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;
But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 -
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 -
My dove, my undefiled, is but one;
She is the only one of her mother;
She is the choice one of her that bare her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed;
Yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 -
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun,
Terrible as an army with banners?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:7 - And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 - And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 - Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

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