Strong's #7592: sha'al (pronounced shaw-al')
or shael {shaw-ale'}; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:--ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
shâ'al / shâ'êl
1) to ask, enquire, borrow, beg
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to ask, ask for
1a2) to ask (as a favour), borrow
1a3) to enquire, enquire of
1a4) to enquire of, consult (of deity, oracle)
1a5) to seek
1b) (Niphal) to ask for oneself, ask leave of absence
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to enquire, enquire carefully
1c2) to beg, practise beggary
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to be given on request
1d2) to grant, make over to, let (one) ask (successfully) or give or lend on request (then) grant or make over to
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 172 times:
Genesis 24:47: " And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel,"
Genesis 24:57: "And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth."
Genesis 26:7: "And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for"
Genesis 32:17: "Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither"
Genesis 32:29: "And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore"
Genesis 32:29: "And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there."
Genesis 37:15: "he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest"
Genesis 38:21: " Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that"
Genesis 40:7: " And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's"
Genesis 43:7: "And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet"
Genesis 43:7: "And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet"
Genesis 43:27: " And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke?"
Genesis 44:19: "My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or"
Exodus 3:22: "But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels"
Exodus 11:2: "in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman"
Exodus 12:35: "did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver,"
Exodus 12:36: "favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians."
Exodus 13:14: "And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this?"
Exodus 18:7: "his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came"
Exodus 22:14: "And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or"
Numbers 27:21: "before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD:"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before"
Deuteronomy 6:20: "And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes,"
Deuteronomy 10:12: "what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but"
Deuteronomy 13:14: "Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain,"
Deuteronomy 14:26: "or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there"
Deuteronomy 18:11: "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer."
Deuteronomy 18:16: "According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb"
Deuteronomy 32:7: "consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders,"
Joshua 4:6: "among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these"
Joshua 4:21: "saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,"
Joshua 9:14: "And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD."
Joshua 15:18: "And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:"
Joshua 19:50: "him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim:"
Judges 1:1: "it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up"
Judges 1:14: "And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:"
Judges 4:20: "when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here?"
Judges 5:25: " He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish."
Judges 8:14: "a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him"
Judges 8:24: "And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man"
Judges 8:26: "of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred"
Judges 13:6: "of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence"
Judges 13:18: "of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?"
Judges 18:5: "And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we"
Judges 18:15: "the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted"
Judges 20:18: "arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up"
Judges 20:23: "the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again"
Judges 20:27: "And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there"
1 Samuel 1:17: "thee thy petition that thou hast asked of"
1 Samuel 1:20: "his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD."
