Strong's #1245: baqash (pronounced baw-kash')
a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:--ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bâqash
1) to seek, require, desire, exact, request
1a) (Piel)
1a1) to seek to find
1a2) to seek to secure
1a3) to seek the face
1a4) to desire, demand
1a5) to require, exact
1a6) to ask, request
1b) (Pual) to be sought
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 225 times:
2 Samuel 4:11: "his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand,"
2 Samuel 5:17: "all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard"
2 Samuel 12:16: "David therefore besought God for the child; and David"
2 Samuel 16:11: "which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more"
2 Samuel 17:3: "thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people"
2 Samuel 17:20: "unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 20:19: "and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy and a mother in Israel:"
2 Samuel 21:1: "year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered,"
2 Samuel 21:2: "of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay"
1 Kings 1:2: "Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin:"
1 Kings 1:3: " So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found"
1 Kings 2:40: "to Gath Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went,"
1 Kings 10:24: "And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear"
1 Kings 11:22: "lacked with thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,"
1 Kings 11:40: "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose,"
1 Kings 18:10: "my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath"
1 Kings 19:10: "with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
1 Kings 19:14: "with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."
1 Kings 20:7: "and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto"
2 Kings 2:16: "strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure"
2 Kings 2:17: "They sent therefore fifty and they sought three days, but found him not."
2 Kings 6:19: "me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria."
1 Chronicles 4:39: "even unto the east side of the valley, to seek for their flocks."
1 Chronicles 14:8: "all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard"
1 Chronicles 16:10: "name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD."
1 Chronicles 16:11: "Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually."
1 Chronicles 21:3: "servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass"
2 Chronicles 7:14: "are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek and turn from their wicked"
2 Chronicles 9:23: "And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,"
2 Chronicles 11:16: "of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 15:4: "the LORD God of Israel, and sought"
2 Chronicles 15:15: "they had sworn their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD"
2 Chronicles 20:4: "And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all"
2 Chronicles 20:4: "out of all of Judah they came to seek the LORD."
2 Chronicles 22:9: " And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,)"
Ezra 2:62: "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put"
Ezra 8:21: "that we might afflict ourselves our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones,"
Ezra 8:22: "of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against"
Ezra 8:23: "So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated"
Nehemiah 2:4: "unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed the God"
Nehemiah 2:10: "that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel."
Nehemiah 5:12: "Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do"
Nehemiah 5:18: "of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor,"
Nehemiah 7:64: "These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted,"
Nehemiah 12:27: "And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all"
Esther 2:2: "unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:"
Esther 2:15: "to go in unto the king, she required nothing but"
Esther 2:21: "of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king"
Esther 2:23: " And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree:"
Esther 3:6: "the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews"
