ἐκλεκτός
chosen
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1588 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, εκλεκτος (eklektós) means “chosen.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 22:14. It appears 22 verses across 11 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. It clusters with εκλεγομαι and εκλογη under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1588 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #586
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 586 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 22 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 41%
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 27%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 27%
- Johannine 3 verses · 14%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 9%
- Revelation 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Elect 13×, Chosen 5×, Elect's sake 2×
- American Standard Version: Elect 13×, Chosen 4×, 's elect 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Elect 14×, Chosen 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Elect 11×, Chosen 8×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1588 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1588 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1588 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1588 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- picked out, chosen
Word origin
Derived from εκλεγομαι (eklégomai) (G1586) — to choose.
From G1586 ; select ; by implication favorite : - chosen elect.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G1588 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκλεκτοὺς eklektoùs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:22 | 4 |
| ἐκλεκτῶν eklektō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 18:7 | 4 |
| ἐκλεκτούς eklektoús | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:24 | 3 |
| ἐκλεκτὸν eklektòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 16:13 | 3 |
| ἐκλεκτοὶ eklektoì | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 3:12 | 2 |
| ἐκλεκτοί eklektoí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 22:14 | 1 |
| ἐκλεκτοῖς eklektoîs | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Peter 1:1 | 1 |
| ἐκλεκτόν eklektón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Peter 2:9 | 1 |
| ἐκλεκτός eklektós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 23:35 | 1 |
| ἐκλεκτῆς eklektē̂s | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 2 John 1:13 | 1 |
| ἐκλεκτῇ eklektē̂ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 2 John 1:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1588, 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
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκλεκτος appears 81 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 77 verses in 22 books.
- 81
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 77
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 22 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 22 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 23:6 ἐκλεκτός
- Exodus 14:7 ἐκλεκτός
- Deuteronomy 12:11 ἐκλεκτός
- Judges 20:15 ἐκλεκτός
- 1 Samuel 24:3 ἐκλεκτός
- 2 Samuel 8:8 ἐκλεκτός
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἐκλεκτός
- 2 Kings 8:12 ἐκλεκτός
- 1 Chronicles 7:40 ἐκλεκτός
- Ezra 5:8 ἐκλεκτός
- Job 37:11 ἐκλεκτός
- Psalms 17:27 ἐκλεκτός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1588) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 77. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 23:6 ἐκλεκτός "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 41:2 ἐκλεκτός Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
- Genesis 41:4 ἐκλεκτός The ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:5 ἐκλεκτός He slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
- Genesis 41:7 ἐκλεκτός The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:18 ἐκλεκτός and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
- Genesis 41:20 ἐκλεκτός The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
- Exodus 14:7 ἐκλεκτός and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
- Exodus 30:23 ἐκλεκτός "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
- Deuteronomy 12:11 ἐκλεκτός 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.
- Judges 20:15 ἐκλεκτός The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
- Judges 20:34 ἐκλεκτός There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
- 1 Samuel 24:3 ἐκλεκτός He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
- 1 Samuel 26:2 ἐκλεκτός Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
- 2 Samuel 8:8 ἐκλεκτός From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
- 2 Samuel 21:6 ἐκλεκτός let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.
- 2 Samuel 22:27 ἐκλεκτός With the pure you will show yourself pure; With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἐκλεκτός So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 5:3 ἐκλεκτός You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
- 2 Kings 8:12 ἐκλεκτός Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? He answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and their young men will you kill with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.
- 2 Kings 19:23 ἐκλεκτός By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40 ἐκλεκτός All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 ἐκλεκτός All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
- 1 Chronicles 16:13 ἐκλεκτός You seed of Israel his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- 1 Chronicles 18:8 ἐκλεκτός From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
- Ezra 5:8 ἐκλεκτός Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
- Ezra 15:18 ἐκλεκτός
- Job 37:11 ἐκλεκτός Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
- Psalms 17:27 ἐκλεκτός
- Psalms 77:31 ἐκλεκτός
- Psalms 88:4 ἐκλεκτός I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
- Psalms 88:20 ἐκλεκτός
- Psalms 104:6 ἐκλεκτός You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
- Psalms 104:43 ἐκλεκτός
- Psalms 105:5 ἐκλεκτός Remember his marvelous works that he has done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- Psalms 105:23 ἐκλεκτός Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 140:4 ἐκλεκτός Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
- Proverbs 8:19 ἐκλεκτός My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; My yield than choice silver.
- Proverbs 12:24 ἐκλεκτός The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, But laziness ends in slave labor.
- Proverbs 17:3 ἐκλεκτός The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But Yahweh tests the hearts.
- Song of Solomon 5:15 ἐκλεκτός His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- Song of Solomon 6:9 ἐκλεκτός My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
- Song of Solomon 6:10 ἐκλεκτός Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?
- Isaiah 22:7 ἐκλεκτός It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
- Isaiah 22:8 ἐκλεκτός He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
- Isaiah 28:16 ἐκλεκτός therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste.
- Isaiah 40:30 ἐκλεκτός Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
- Isaiah 42:1 ἐκλεκτός Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
- Isaiah 43:20 ἐκλεκτός The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
- Isaiah 45:4 ἐκλεκτός For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1588) 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.
