Strong’s H1245 · Hebrew
בָּקַשׁ
bâqash · baw-kash'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
In the King James Version ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
In 215 verses of the King James Version
101–150 of 215
- Esther 7:7And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
- Esther 9:2The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
- Job 10:6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
- Psalms 4:2O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- Psalms 24:6This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
- Psalms 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
- Psalms 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
- Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
- Psalms 35:4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
- Psalms 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
- Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 40:14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
- Psalms 40:16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
- Psalms 54:3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
- Psalms 63:9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- Psalms 69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
- Psalms 70:2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
- Psalms 70:4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
- Psalms 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- Psalms 71:24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
- Psalms 83:16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
- Psalms 86:14O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
- Psalms 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- Psalms 105:3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
- Psalms 105:4Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
- Psalms 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Psalms 122:9Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
- Proverbs 2:4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
- Proverbs 11:27He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
- Proverbs 14:6A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
- Proverbs 15:14The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
- Proverbs 17:9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- Proverbs 17:11An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Proverbs 17:19He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
- Proverbs 18:1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
- Proverbs 18:15The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
- Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
- Proverbs 28:5Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
- Proverbs 29:10The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
- Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
- Ecclesiastes 3:15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
- Ecclesiastes 7:28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.