Strong's #1875: darash (pronounced daw-rash')
a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship:--ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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dârash
1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)
1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek
1a2a) of God
1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers
1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship
1a3a) God
1a3b) heathen deities
1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require
1a5) to investigate, enquire
1a6) to ask for, require, demand
1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application
1a8) to seek with care, care for
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)
1b2) to be sought, be sought out
1b3) to be required (of blood)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 164 times:
Psalms 38:12: "They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek speak mischievous things, and imagine"
Psalms 53:2: "of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God."
Psalms 69:32: "this, and be glad: and your heart that seek God."
Psalms 77:2: "In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: ran in the night, and ceased"
Psalms 78:34: "When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned after God."
Psalms 105:4: " Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek evermore."
Psalms 109:10: "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek"
Psalms 111:2: "The works of the LORD are great, sought out them that have pleasure"
Psalms 119:2: "Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek heart."
Psalms 119:10: "With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not from thy commandments."
Psalms 119:45: "And I will walk at liberty: for I seek"
Psalms 119:94: "I am thine, save me; for I have sought"
Psalms 119:155: "is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes."
Psalms 142:4: "me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul."
Proverbs 11:27: "good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come"
Proverbs 31:13: " She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh with her hands."
Ecclesiastes 1:13: "And I gave my heart to seek by wisdom concerning all"
Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do well; seek judgment, the oppressed, judge the fatherless,"
Isaiah 8:19: "And when they shall say unto you, Seek them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards"
Isaiah 8:19: "and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living"
Isaiah 9:13: "unto them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts."
Isaiah 11:10: "of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."
Isaiah 16:5: "in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness."
Isaiah 19:3: "in the midst the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers,"
Isaiah 31:1: "unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!"
Isaiah 34:16: " Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, no one"
Isaiah 55:6: " Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call near:"
Isaiah 58:2: " Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know as a nation that"
Isaiah 62:12: "The redeemed and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken."
Isaiah 65:1: " I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found me not: I said, Behold"
Isaiah 65:10: "to lie down in, for my people that have sought"
Jeremiah 8:2: "whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered,"
Jeremiah 10:21: "the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not"
Jeremiah 21:2: " Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD us; for Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 29:7: " And seek the peace of the city I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray"
Jeremiah 29:13: "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for your heart."
Jeremiah 30:14: "All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek for I have wounded thee with the wound"
Jeremiah 30:17: "thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh"
Jeremiah 37:7: "of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth"
Jeremiah 38:4: "unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this"
Lamentations 3:25: "is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh"
Ezekiel 14:3: "of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all"
Ezekiel 14:3: "of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all should I be inquired of at all"
Ezekiel 14:7: "the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire"
Ezekiel 14:10: "of the prophet even as the punishment of him that seeketh"
Ezekiel 20:1: "of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat"
Ezekiel 20:3: "GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 20:3: "the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired"
Ezekiel 20:31: "even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,"
Ezekiel 20:31: "the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of"
