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:
Esther 4:8: "unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people."
Esther 6:2: "the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king"
Esther 7:7: "the palace and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther"
Esther 9:2: "Ahasuerus, hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand"
Job 10:6: "That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?"
Psalms 4:2: "will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah."
Psalms 24:6: "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah."
Psalms 27:4: "thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house"
Psalms 27:8: " When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD,"
Psalms 27:8: "unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek."
Psalms 34:14: "from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue"
Psalms 35:4: "Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion"
Psalms 37:25: "the righteous nor his seed begging bread."
Psalms 37:32: "The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay"
Psalms 37:36: "Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found."
Psalms 38:12: " They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things,"
Psalms 40:14: "Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven"
Psalms 40:16: "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say"
Psalms 54:3: "are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: set God"
Psalms 63:9: "But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth."
Psalms 69:6: "of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel."
Psalms 70:2: "Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion,"
Psalms 70:4: "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say"
Psalms 71:13: "let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt."
Psalms 71:24: "for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt."
Psalms 83:16: "Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD."
Psalms 86:14: "against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after and have not set thee before"
Psalms 104:21: "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God."
Psalms 105:3: "name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD."
Psalms 105:4: "Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore."
Psalms 119:176: "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not"
Psalms 122:9: "the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good."
Proverbs 2:4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;"
Proverbs 11:27: "He that diligently seeketh good procureth favor: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come"
Proverbs 14:6: "A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth."
Proverbs 15:14: "The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on"
Proverbs 17:9: "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth"
Proverbs 17:11: "An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent"
Proverbs 17:19: "strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh"
Proverbs 18:1: "Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."
Proverbs 18:15: "knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh"
Proverbs 21:6: "tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek"
Proverbs 23:35: "it not: when I will seek it yet again."
Proverbs 28:5: "understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD all"
Proverbs 29:10: "The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul."
Proverbs 29:26: "Many seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD."
Ecclesiastes 3:6: "A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time"
Ecclesiastes 3:15: "which is to be hath already been; requireth that which is past."
Ecclesiastes 7:25: "mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, of things, and to know the wickedness"
Ecclesiastes 7:28: "Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one"
