Strong's #2713: chaqar (pronounced khaw-kar')

a primitive root; properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately:--find out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châqar

1) to search, search for, search out, examine, investigate

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to search (for)

1a2) to search through, explore

1a3) to examine thoroughly

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be searched out, be found out, be ascertained, be examined

1c) (Piel) to search out, seek out

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

 

Deuteronomy 13:14: "Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain,"
Judges 18:2: "from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search"
Judges 18:2: "to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search"
1 Samuel 20:12: "God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about tomorrow any time,"
2 Samuel 10:3: "his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow"
1 Kings 7:47: "many: neither was the weight of the brass found out."
1 Chronicles 19:3: "come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"
2 Chronicles 4:18: "the weight of the brass could not be found out."
Job 5:27: "Lo we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou"
Job 13:9: "Is it good he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock"
Job 28:3: "He setteth to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones"
Job 28:27: "it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out."
Job 29:16: "and the cause which I knew not I searched out."
Job 32:11: "to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say."
Psalms 44:21: "Shall not search this out? for he knoweth the secrets"
Psalms 139:1: "of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known"
Psalms 139:23: " Search and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:"
Proverbs 18:17: "seemeth just; but his neighbor cometh and searcheth"
Proverbs 23:30: "the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."
Proverbs 25:2: "a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."
Proverbs 28:11: "in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out."
Ecclesiastes 12:9: "the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs."
Jeremiah 17:10: "I search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man"
Jeremiah 31:37: "above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also"
Jeremiah 46:23: "the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers,"
Lamentations 3:40: "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."
Ezekiel 39:14: "it: after the end of seven months shall they search."