G1586 – eklegomai – ἐκλέγομαι – to choose
- Strong’s ID:
- G1586
- Greek Word:
- ἐκλέγομαι
- Transliteration:
- eklegomai
- Pronunciation:
- ek-leg’-om-ahee
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- middle voice from G1537 and G3004 (in its primary sense)
- Usage Count:
- 21
- Search:
- Find “eklegomai” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to choose
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
middle voice from G1537 and G3004 (in its primary sense); to select:—make choice, choose (out), chosen.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to pick out, choose, to pick or choose out for one’s self
1a) choosing one out of many, i.e. Jesus choosing his disciples
1b) choosing one for an office
1c) of God choosing whom he judged fit to receive his favours and separated from the rest of mankind to be peculiarly his own and to be attended continually by his gracious oversight
1c1) i.e. the Israelites
1d) of God the Father choosing Christians, as those whom he set apart from the irreligious multitude as dear unto himself, and whom he has rendered, through faith in Christ, citizens in the Messianic kingdom: (James 2:5) so that the ground of the choice lies in Christ and his merits only
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.