Lexical Summary hairetizō: to choose Original Word: αἱρετίζωTransliteration: hairetizō Phonetic Spelling: (hahee-ret-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to choose Meaning: to choose Strong's Concordance choose. From a derivative of haireomai; to make a choice -- choose. see GREEK haireomai 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 ( |