Strong's H977 · Hebrew

bachar

baw-khar'

a primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

 H977 בָּחַר examine , try . . examine , scrutinize , try . prove , test , try . to be tried , proved . the trial has been made  

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain