Strong's #7592: sha'al (pronounced shaw-al')
or shael {shaw-ale'}; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:--ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
shâ'al / shâ'êl
1) to ask, enquire, borrow, beg
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to ask, ask for
1a2) to ask (as a favour), borrow
1a3) to enquire, enquire of
1a4) to enquire of, consult (of deity, oracle)
1a5) to seek
1b) (Niphal) to ask for oneself, ask leave of absence
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to enquire, enquire carefully
1c2) to beg, practise beggary
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to be given on request
1d2) to grant, make over to, let (one) ask (successfully) or give or lend on request (then) grant or make over to
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 172 times:
1 Samuel 1:27: "me my petition which I asked of"
1 Samuel 1:28: "Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he"
1 Samuel 1:28: "he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there."
1 Samuel 2:20: "for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home."
1 Samuel 8:10: "of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king."
1 Samuel 10:4: " And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands."
1 Samuel 10:22: " Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD"
1 Samuel 12:13: "whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king"
1 Samuel 12:17: "ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king."
1 Samuel 12:19: "all our sins this evil, to ask us a king."
1 Samuel 14:37: "And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand"
1 Samuel 17:22: "and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren."
1 Samuel 17:56: "And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling"
1 Samuel 19:22: "well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David?"
1 Samuel 20:6: "at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run"
1 Samuel 20:6: "at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run"
1 Samuel 20:28: "Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to"
1 Samuel 20:28: "Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to"
1 Samuel 22:10: " And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
1 Samuel 22:13: "in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait,"
1 Samuel 22:15: "Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute"
1 Samuel 23:2: "Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines?"
1 Samuel 23:4: "Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said,"
1 Samuel 25:5: "and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:"
1 Samuel 25:8: " Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes:"
1 Samuel 28:6: "And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams,"
1 Samuel 28:16: "Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from"
1 Samuel 30:8: "And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop?"
1 Samuel 30:21: "him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted"
2 Samuel 2:1: "after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any"
2 Samuel 3:13: "one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not"
2 Samuel 5:19: "And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver"
2 Samuel 5:23: "And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass"
2 Samuel 8:10: "unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because"
2 Samuel 11:7: "was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did,"
2 Samuel 12:20: "and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat."
2 Samuel 14:18: "the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king"
2 Samuel 16:23: "days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all"
2 Samuel 20:18: "to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended"
2 Samuel 20:18: "to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended"
1 Kings 2:16: "And now I ask one petition of thee, deny"
1 Kings 2:20: "Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay."
1 Kings 2:20: "thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother:"
1 Kings 2:22: "unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?"
1 Kings 2:22: "Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he"
1 Kings 3:5: "by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give"
1 Kings 3:10: "pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing."
1 Kings 3:11: "said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing,"
1 Kings 3:11: "this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither"
1 Kings 3:11: "asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked"
