ἐπίλεκτος
chosen, select
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπίλεκτος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 15:4 ἐπίλεκτος He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea.
- Exodus 24:11 ἐπίλεκτος And of the chosen ones of Israel there was not even one missing, and they appeared in the place of God, and did eat and drink.
- Joshua 17:16 ἐπίλεκτος And they said, The mount of Ephraim does not please us, and the Chananite dwelling in it in Baethsan, and in its villages, and in the valley of Jezrael, has choice cavalry and iron.
- Joshua 17:18 ἐπίλεκτος For you shall have the wood, for there is a wood, and you shall clear it, and the land shall be yours; even when you shall have utterly destroyed the Chananite, for he has chosen cavalry; yet you are stronger than he.
- Ezekiel 17:3 ἐπίλεκτος and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice branches of the cedar:
- Ezekiel 17:22 ἐπίλεκτος For thus says the Lord; I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain:
- Ezekiel 23:6 ἐπίλεκτος clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 23:7 ἐπίλεκτος And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.
- Ezekiel 23:12 ἐπίλεκτος She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.
- Ezekiel 23:23 ἐπίλεκτος the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 24:5 ἐπίλεκτος which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.
- Daniel 1:3 ἐπίλεκτος And the king told Asphanez his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
- Joel 4:5 ἐπίλεκτος
About this word
About this word
ἐπίλεκτος (epílektos), “chosen, select,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
