Strong's #7836: shachar (pronounced shaw-khar')

a primitive root; properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking):--(do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâchar

1) to seek, seek early or earnestly, look early or diligently for

1a) (Qal) to look for diligently, seek

1b) (Piel) to seek, seek early

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Job 7:21: "now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not"
Job 8:5: "If thou wouldest seek unto God quickly, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;"
Job 24:5: "in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising quickly for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children."
Psalms 63:1: "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth"
Psalms 78:34: "he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God."
Proverbs 1:28: "shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find"
Proverbs 7:15: "Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found"
Proverbs 8:17: "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find"
Proverbs 11:27: " He that diligently seeketh good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come"
Proverbs 13:24: "his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly."
Isaiah 26:9: "yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth,"
Hosea 5:15: "they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early."