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:
Ezekiel 34:16: " I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken,"
Daniel 1:8: "nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs"
Daniel 1:20: "and understanding, that the king inquired them, he found them ten times"
Daniel 8:15: "had seen the vision, and sought then, behold, there stood before"
Daniel 9:3: "unto the Lord God, to seek and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth,"
Hosea 2:7: "her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not them: then shall she say, I will go"
Hosea 3:5: "shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD and David"
Hosea 5:6: "They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not"
Hosea 5:15: "my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek in their affliction they will seek me early."
Hosea 7:10: "their God, nor seek him for all this."
Amos 8:12: "and from the north even to the east, to seek the word"
Nahum 3:7: "who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters"
Nahum 3:11: "hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy."
Zephaniah 1:6: "from the LORD; and those that have not sought nor"
Zephaniah 2:3: " Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which"
Zephaniah 2:3: "which his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be"
Zephaniah 2:3: "his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day"
Zechariah 6:7: "And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said,"
Zechariah 8:21: "before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts:"
Zechariah 8:22: "and strong nations shall come to seek of hosts in Jerusalem,"
Zechariah 11:16: "those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken,"
Zechariah 12:9: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all"
Malachi 2:7: "lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law for"
Malachi 2:15: "of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit,"
Malachi 3:1: "me: and the Lord, ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,"
