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:
́
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:
1 Corinthians 1:22: "a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:"
1 Corinthians 4:2: "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man"
1 Corinthians 7:27: "Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife?"
1 Corinthians 7:27: "Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife."
1 Corinthians 10:24: "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's"
1 Corinthians 10:33: "please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but"
1 Corinthians 13:5: "Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh"
1 Corinthians 14:12: "ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the"
2 Corinthians 12:14: "be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you:"
2 Corinthians 13:3: "Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which"
Galatians 1:10: "or God? or do I seek to please men? for if"
Galatians 2:17: "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also"
Philippians 2:21: "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's."
Colossians 3:1: "ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth"
1 Thessalonians 2:6: "Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you,"
2 Timothy 1:17: "when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found"
Hebrews 8:7: "then should no place have been sought for the second."
1 Peter 3:11: "and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it."
1 Peter 5:8: "a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:"
Revelation 9:6: "those days shall men seek death, and shall not find"
