Strong's #1875: darash (pronounced daw-rash')
a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship:--ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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dârash
1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)
1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek
1a2a) of God
1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers
1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship
1a3a) God
1a3b) heathen deities
1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require
1a5) to investigate, enquire
1a6) to ask for, require, demand
1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application
1a8) to seek with care, care for
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)
1b2) to be sought, be sought out
1b3) to be required (of blood)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 164 times:
2 Chronicles 1:5: "of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought"
2 Chronicles 12:14: "he prepared his heart to seek the LORD."
2 Chronicles 14:4: "And commanded Judah to seek God of their fathers, and to do"
2 Chronicles 14:7: "is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought"
2 Chronicles 14:7: "the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built"
2 Chronicles 15:2: "you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake"
2 Chronicles 15:12: "And they entered into a covenant to seek God of their fathers with all"
2 Chronicles 15:13: "That whosoever would not seek the LORD of Israel should be put to death,"
2 Chronicles 16:12: "was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but"
2 Chronicles 17:3: "ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;"
2 Chronicles 17:4: "But sought to the LORD God of his father, in his commandments, and not after the doings"
2 Chronicles 18:4: "unto the king Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 18:6: "of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?"
2 Chronicles 18:7: "one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I"
2 Chronicles 19:3: "the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."
2 Chronicles 20:3: "and set to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout"
2 Chronicles 22:9: "is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart."
2 Chronicles 24:6: "unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah"
2 Chronicles 24:22: "he said, The LORD look upon it, and require"
2 Chronicles 25:15: "him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which"
2 Chronicles 25:20: "that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom."
2 Chronicles 26:5: "And he sought And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, in the visions of God:"
2 Chronicles 26:5: "in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God"
2 Chronicles 30:19: "That prepareth his heart to seek God, God of his fathers, though he be not"
2 Chronicles 31:9: "Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests concerning the heaps."
2 Chronicles 31:21: "of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart,"
2 Chronicles 32:31: "of Babylon, unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land,"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth"
2 Chronicles 34:21: "Go, inquire of the LORD me, and for them that are left in Israel"
2 Chronicles 34:26: "the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto"
Ezra 4:2: "unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days"
Ezra 6:21: "unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God"
Ezra 7:10: "Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do"
Ezra 9:12: "their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever:"
Ezra 10:16: "day of the tenth month to examine the matter."
Esther 10:3: "and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace"
Job 3:4: "darkness; God regard it from above, neither let the light"
Job 5:8: "I would seek unto God, God would I commit my cause:"
Job 10:6: "That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest"
Job 39:8: "The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth every green thing."
Psalms 9:10: "hast not forsaken them that seek"
Psalms 9:12: "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth not the cry of the humble."
Psalms 10:4: "through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
Psalms 10:13: "God? in his heart, Thou wilt not require"
Psalms 10:15: "thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none."
Psalms 14:2: "of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God."
Psalms 22:26: "and be satisfied: they shall praise that seek him: your heart shall live forever."
Psalms 24:6: "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek O Jacob. Selah."
Psalms 34:4: " I sought the LORD, and he heard me from all my fears."
Psalms 34:10: "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek shall not want any"
