| Lexical Summary hairetizō: to chooseOriginal Word: αἱρετίζω Transliteration: hairetizō Phonetic Spelling: (hahee-ret-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to choose Meaning: to choose Strong's Concordancechoose. From a derivative of haireomai; to make a choice -- choose. see GREEK haireomai Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 140: αἱρετίζω αἱρετίζω: 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 ( | 



