Hebrew semantic word

בחר

Transliteration: bachar

5 lexical sense(s); 171 exact STEP occurrence token(s).

Lexical senses and semantic domains

Sense 1: to choose, to prefer

= action by which someone makes a selection among several options, which include humans, divine beings, animals, other objects, or events

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000907-01
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ubs_hebrew_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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152 (152 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 2: choice, picked, to be preferred

= state in which an object has been selected for its superior quality

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000907-02
Source
ubs_hebrew_dictionary
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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6 (6 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 3: to be preferred

= state in which an event is considered superior in quality to other events

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000907-03
Source
ubs_hebrew_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 4: warrior, soldier

= person selected from among the young men of a tribe or nation to join the army

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000907-04
Source
ubs_hebrew_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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14 (14 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Sense 5: to test, to examine

= action by which someone evaluates the dependability and/or reliability of someone else ◄ as an assayer examines ore or metal

Semantic domains for this sense

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Sense ID
SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000907-05
Source
ubs_hebrew_dictionary
Licence
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records)
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Related words and biblical concepts

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Lemma ID
SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-000907
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Direction
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Domain policy
Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
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