Strong's #2212: zeteo (pronounced dzay-teh'-o)
of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life):--be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means). Compare 4441.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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zēteō
1) to seek in order to find
1a) to seek a thing
1b) to seek [in order to find out] by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into
1c) to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after
2) to seek, i.e. require, demand
2a) to crave, demand something from someone
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: of uncertain affinity
Citing in TDNT: 2:892, 300
Usage:
This word is used 120 times:
John 1:38: "and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi,"
John 4:23: "the Father seeketh such to worship him."
John 4:27: "no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with"
John 5:16: "Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because"
John 5:18: "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him,"
John 5:30: "is just; because I seek not mine own will, but"
John 5:44: "honor one of another, and seek not the honor"
John 6:24: "and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus."
John 6:26: "verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw"
John 7:1: "because the Jews sought to kill him."
John 7:4: "secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If"
John 7:11: "Then the Jews sought him at the feast,"
John 7:18: "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh"
John 7:18: "his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same"
John 7:19: "the law? Why go ye about to kill me?"
John 7:20: "Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?"
John 7:25: "not this he, whom they seek to kill?"
John 7:30: "Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands"
John 7:34: " Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I"
John 7:36: "this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find"
John 8:21: "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in"
John 8:37: "Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my"
John 8:40: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told"
John 8:50: "And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh"
John 8:50: "mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth."
John 10:39: "Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of"
John 11:8: "the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest"
John 11:56: "Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood"
John 13:33: "I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said"
John 16:19: "and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that"
John 18:4: "and said unto them, Whom seek"
John 18:7: "he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus"
John 18:8: "am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:"
John 19:12: "And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the"
John 20:15: "why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be"
Acts 9:11: "which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called"
Acts 10:19: "Behold, three men seek thee."
Acts 10:21: "I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore"
Acts 13:8: "is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the"
Acts 13:11: "there fell on him a mist"
Acts 13:11: "there fell on him a mist"
Acts 16:10: "the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering"
Acts 17:5: "and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out"
Acts 17:27: " That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him,"
Acts 21:31: "And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain"
Acts 27:30: "And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship,"
Romans 2:7: "patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and"
Romans 10:3: "of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not"
Romans 10:20: "and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest"
Romans 11:3: "am left alone, and they seek my life."
