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:
Ecclesiastes 7:29: "man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
Ecclesiastes 8:17: "because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea"
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright,"
Song of Solomon 3:1: "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:"
Song of Solomon 3:1: "him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
Song of Solomon 3:2: "the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek loveth: I sought"
Song of Solomon 3:2: "I will seek loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
Song of Solomon 5:6: "my soul when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."
Song of Solomon 6:1: "whither is thy beloved that we may seek him with"
Isaiah 1:12: "to appear before me, who hath required this to tread"
Isaiah 40:20: "a tree that will not rot; he seeketh workman to prepare a graven image,"
Isaiah 41:12: " Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war"
Isaiah 41:17: "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth"
Isaiah 45:19: "unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak"
Isaiah 51:1: "to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look the rock"
Isaiah 65:1: "of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, me, behold"
Jeremiah 2:24: "in her occasion can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month"
Jeremiah 2:33: "Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also"
Jeremiah 4:30: "shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
Jeremiah 5:1: "and see now, and know, and seek thereof, if ye can find a man,"
Jeremiah 5:1: "there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon"
Jeremiah 11:21: "of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy"
Jeremiah 19:7: "before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give"
Jeremiah 19:9: "and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten"
Jeremiah 21:7: "of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge"
Jeremiah 22:25: "And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face"
Jeremiah 26:21: "his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid,"
Jeremiah 29:13: " And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Jeremiah 34:20: "them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies for meat"
Jeremiah 34:21: "into the hand of their enemies, of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's"
Jeremiah 38:16: "of these men that seek thy life."
Jeremiah 44:30: "into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave"
Jeremiah 44:30: "king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life."
Jeremiah 45:5: " And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold,"
Jeremiah 45:5: "And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold,"
Jeremiah 46:26: "And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 49:37: "before their enemies, and before them that seek and I will bring evil upon"
Jeremiah 50:4: "going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God."
Jeremiah 50:20: "of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not"
Lamentations 1:11: "All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things"
Lamentations 1:19: "gave up the ghost while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
Ezekiel 3:18: "to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Ezekiel 3:20: "he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Ezekiel 7:25: "Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none."
Ezekiel 7:26: "shall be upon then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law"
Ezekiel 22:30: " And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap"
Ezekiel 26:21: "I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again,"
Ezekiel 33:8: "that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
Ezekiel 34:4: "have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled"
Ezekiel 34:6: "of the earth, and none did search or seek"
