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:
Ezekiel 20:40: "me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations,"
Ezekiel 33:6: "is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."
Ezekiel 34:6: "the face of the earth, and none did search or seek"
Ezekiel 34:8: "because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock,"
Ezekiel 34:10: "I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand,"
Ezekiel 34:11: "Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out."
Ezekiel 36:37: "GOD; for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase"
Hosea 10:12: "break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come"
Amos 5:4: "the LORD of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:"
Amos 5:5: " But seek not Bethel, nor into Gilgal, and pass not"
Amos 5:6: " Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; he break out like fire in the house"
Amos 5:14: " Seek good, and not evil, ye may live: and so the LORD,"
Micah 6:8: "is good; doth the LORD require of thee, but to do"
Zephaniah 1:6: "sought the LORD, nor inquired"
