Strong's #1156: b`a' (pronounced beh-aw')

(Aramaic) or b ah (Aramaic) {beh-aw'}; corresponding to 1158; to seek or ask:--ask, desire, make (petition), pray, request, seek.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ (Aramaic)

be‛â' / be‛âh

1) to ask, seek, request, desire, pray, make petition

1a) (Peal)

1a1) to ask, request

1a2) to seek (for favour)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: corresponding to H1158

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Daniel 2:13: "went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain."
Daniel 2:16: "Then Daniel went in, and desired of that he would give him time,"
Daniel 2:18: " That they would desire mercies of the God concerning this"
Daniel 2:23: "and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's"
Daniel 2:49: "Then Daniel requested of the king, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,"
Daniel 4:36: "unto me; and my counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent"
Daniel 6:4: "Then the presidents and princes sought sought occasion against Daniel"
Daniel 6:7: "decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any"
Daniel 6:11: "assembled, Daniel praying and making supplication before his God."
Daniel 6:12: "every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man"
Daniel 6:13: "not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three"
Daniel 7:16: "one of and asked him the truth of all"