For a complete Scripture study system, try SwordSearcher Bible Software, which includes the unabridged version of this dictionary. Once you experience the swiftness and ease-of-use SwordSearcher gives you right on your own computer, combined with the most powerful search features available, you will never want to use the web to do online study again. Includes tens of thousands of topical, encyclopedic, and commentary entries all linked to verses, fully searchable by topic or verse reference.

Also try Daily Bible and Prayer to design your own Bible reading programs and track your prayer list.

KJV Dictionary Definition: choose

choose

CHOOSE, v.t.

1. To pick out; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more things offered; to make choice of.

The man the Lord doth choose shall be holy. Num. 16.

2. To take in preference.

Let us choose to us judgment. Job 34.

3. To prefer; to choose for imitation; to follow.

Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. Prov 3.

4. To elect for eternal happiness; to predestinate to life.

Many are called but few chosen. Matt 20.

For his elects sake, whom he hath chosen. Mark 13.

5. To elect or designate to office or employment by votes or suffrages. In the United States, the people choose representatives by votes, usually by ballot.

CHOOSE, v.i.

1. To prefer; as, I choose to go.

2. To have the power of choice. The phrase, he cannot choose but stay, denotes that he has not the power of choice, whether to stay or not.

The verb, in these phrases, is really transitive; the following verb standing as the object, instead of a noun.

choosing

CHOOSING, ppr. Selecting; taking in preference; electing.

CHOOSING, n. Choice; election.