miv.char denotes what is selected as excellent within a group, whether people, animals, places, or offerings.

The occurrences consistently mark a selected or outstanding portion within a larger class: officers and troops, offerings, livestock and bones, trees, graves, valleys, and young men. The supplied morphology is predominantly masculine singular construct, with a masculine plural construct form in Daniel 11:15; this variation does not establish a separate use.

1. Selected, outstanding members or portions · dominant

   In Exodus 15:4, the construct noun occurs with Pharaoh's officers as the APB renders the clause “the best of his officers sank in the sea of Reeds.” In Deuteronomy 12:11 it qualifies vowed offerings, while Ezekiel 24:4 and Ezekiel 24:5 place it with bones and flock in instructions for filling and boiling the pot. The same selection within a class is visible with cypresses in 2 Kings 19:23, troops in Daniel 11:15, and young men in Jeremiah 48:15.

   Exodus 15:4Deuteronomy 12:11Ezekiel 24:4Ezekiel 24:5Daniel 11:15Jeremiah 48:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “best,” “choicest,” “choice,” “finest,” or “tallest” in clauses concerning a selected group or portion. These English choices confirm the verse-level contrast but do not by themselves define the noun.