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:
Isaiah 41:28: "even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word."
Isaiah 45:11: "the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning"
Isaiah 58:2: "and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight"
Isaiah 65:1: "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold"
Jeremiah 6:16: "ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where"
Jeremiah 15:5: "shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?"
Jeremiah 18:13: "thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard"
Jeremiah 23:33: "the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD?"
Jeremiah 30:6: " Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see"
Jeremiah 36:17: " And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write"
Jeremiah 37:17: "sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there"
Jeremiah 38:14: "unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing"
Jeremiah 38:27: "the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words"
Jeremiah 48:19: "by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What"
Jeremiah 50:5: " They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to"
Lamentations 4:4: "the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh"
Ezekiel 21:21: "to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver."
Hosea 4:12: "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms"
Jonah 4:8: "the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said,"
Micah 7:3: "That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great"
Haggai 2:11: "saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law,"
Zechariah 10:1: " Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make"
