ἐκλέγομαι

The 9 distinct written forms G1586 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1586, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• εκ ek G1537 from

Shares the same root

• εκβαλλω ekbállō G1544 to cast out
• εκβασις ékbasis G1545 exit
• εκγαμιζω ekgamízō G1547 to give in marriage
• εκγαμισκω ekgamískō G1548 to give in marriage
• εκγονον ékgonon G1549 offspring
• εκδαπαναω ekdapanáō G1550 to spend
• εκδεχομαι ekdéchomai G1551 to receive
• εκδηλος ékdēlos G1552 evident
• εκδημεω ekdēméō G1553 to depart
• εκδιδωμι ekdídōmi G1554 to give out
• εκδιηγεομαι ekdiēgéomai G1555 to relate
• εκδικος ékdikos G1558 without justice
• εκδιωκω ekdiṓkō G1559 to banish
• εκδοτος ékdotos G1560 delivered up
• εκδυω ekdýō G1562 to put off
• εκζητεω ekzētéō G1567 to seek out
• εκθαμβος ékthambos G1569 astonished
• εκθετος ékthetos G1570 exposed
• εκκαθαιρω ekkathaírō G1571 to cleanse
• εκκαιω ekkaíō G1572 to burn
• εκκακεω ekkakéō G1573 to be exhausted
• εκκεντεω ekkentéō G1574 to pierce
• εκκλαω ekkláō G1575 to cut off
• εκκλειω ekkleíō G1576 to shut out

+88 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

• εκλεκτος eklektós G1588 chosen
• εκλογη eklogḗ G1589 choice

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 116 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

The same Greek word εκλεγομαι appears 126 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 120 verses in 20 books.

126

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

120

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

20 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 6:2 ἐκλέγω
• Numbers 16:5 ἐκλέγω
• Deuteronomy 1:33 ἐκλέγω
• Joshua 9:27 ἐκλέγω
• Judges 5:8 ἐκλέγω
• 1 Samuel 2:28 ἐκλέγω
• 2 Samuel 6:21 ἐκλέγω
• 1 Kings 3:8 ἐκλέγω
• 2 Kings 21:7 ἐκλέγω
• 1 Chronicles 15:2 ἐκλέγω
• 2 Chronicles 6:5 ἐκλέγω
• Ezra 11:9 ἐκλέγω

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1586) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 120. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 6:2 ἐκλέγω that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
• Genesis 13:11 ἐκλέγω So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
• Numbers 16:5 ἐκλέγω and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near to him.
• Numbers 16:7 ἐκλέγω and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much on you, you sons of Levi.
• Numbers 17:20 ἐκλέγω
• Deuteronomy 1:33 ἐκλέγω who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
• Deuteronomy 4:37 ἐκλέγω Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
• Deuteronomy 7:7 ἐκλέγω Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
• Deuteronomy 10:15 ἐκλέγω Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
• Deuteronomy 12:5 ἐκλέγω But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
• Deuteronomy 12:11 ἐκλέγω then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall you 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 you vow to Yahweh.
• Deuteronomy 12:14 ἐκλέγω but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
• Deuteronomy 12:18 ἐκλέγω but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
• Deuteronomy 12:21 ἐκλέγω If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
• Deuteronomy 12:26 ἐκλέγω Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
• Deuteronomy 14:2 ἐκλέγω For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 14:23 ἐκλέγω You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
• Deuteronomy 14:24 ἐκλέγω If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
• Deuteronomy 14:25 ἐκλέγω then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
• Deuteronomy 15:20 ἐκλέγω You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
• Deuteronomy 16:2 ἐκλέγω You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deuteronomy 16:6 ἐκλέγω but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 16:7 ἐκλέγω You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
• Deuteronomy 16:11 ἐκλέγω and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deuteronomy 16:15 ἐκλέγω Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
• Deuteronomy 16:16 ἐκλέγω Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
• Deuteronomy 17:8 ἐκλέγω If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
• Deuteronomy 17:10 ἐκλέγω You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
• Deuteronomy 17:15 ἐκλέγω you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
• Deuteronomy 18:5 ἐκλέγω For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
• Deuteronomy 18:6 ἐκλέγω If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
• Deuteronomy 26:2 ἐκλέγω that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deuteronomy 30:19 ἐκλέγω I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
• Deuteronomy 31:11 ἐκλέγω when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
• Joshua 9:27 ἐκλέγω That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
• Joshua 24:22 ἐκλέγω Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses.
• Judges 5:8 ἐκλέγω They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?
• Judges 10:14 ἐκλέγω Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
• 1 Samuel 2:28 ἐκλέγω and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
• 1 Samuel 8:18 ἐκλέγω You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
• 1 Samuel 10:24 ἐκλέγω Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
• 1 Samuel 12:13 ἐκλέγω Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and, behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
• 1 Samuel 13:2 ἐκλέγω Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
• 1 Samuel 16:8 ἐκλέγω Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:9 ἐκλέγω Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:10 ἐκλέγω Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
• 1 Samuel 17:8 ἐκλέγω He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
• 1 Samuel 17:20 ἐκλέγω David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
• 2 Samuel 6:21 ἐκλέγω David said to Michal, [It was] before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel: therefore will I play before Yahweh.
• 2 Samuel 16:18 ἐκλέγω Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1586) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.