Lexical Summary
hairetizó: To choose, to prefer
Original Word: αἱρετίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: hairetizó
Pronunciation: hahee-ret-ID-zo
Phonetic Spelling: (hahee-ret-id'-zo)
KJV: choose
NASB: chosen
Word Origin: [from a derivative of G138 (αἱρέομαι - choose)]
1. to make a choice
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
choose.
From a derivative of haireomai; to make a choice -- choose.
see GREEK haireomai
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 140 hairetízō (from 138 /hairéomai) – to select, choose as one's own. See 138 (haireō).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
haireóDefinitionto choose
NASB Translationchosen (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 140: αἱρετίζωαἱρετίζω: 1 aorist
ᾑρέτισα (
Treg. ᾑρέτισα, see Iota); (from
αἱρετός, see
αἱρέω);
to choose:
Matthew 12:18. (Often in the
Sept. in O. T. Apocrypha and in ecclesiastical writings; the middle is found in
Ctesias (
