Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1245: בָּקַשׁ (bâqash) Definition

Strong's number
H1245
Lemma
בָּקַשׁ
Transliteration
bâqash
Pronunciation
baw-kash'
Strong's definition
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). a primitive root;

214 instances of the word בָּקַשׁ bâqash (H1245)


  • 1 Samuel 14:4 - And between the passages sought by which Jonathan to go over garrison unto the Philistines and a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the one side and the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the one Seneh

  • 1 Samuel 16:16 - now command Let our lord thy servants which are before thee to seek out a man who is a cunning is upon thee that he shall play on an harp spirit from God and it shall come to pass when the evil is upon thee that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well

  • 1 Samuel 19:2 - told But Jonathan David saying seeketh Saul my father to kill thee now therefore I pray thee take heed to thyself until the morning and abide in a secret place and hide

  • 1 Samuel 19:10 - sought And Saul and he smote the javelin David even to the wall but he slipped away presence And Saul and he smote the javelin even to the wall David fled and escaped that night

  • 1 Samuel 20:1 - fled And David from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life

  • 1 Samuel 20:16 - made So Jonathan a covenant with the house of David even require saying Let the LORD it at the hand enemies of David

  • 1 Samuel 22:23 - Abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh my life not for he that seeketh my life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard

  • 1 Samuel 23:10 - Then said David O LORD God of Israel hath certainly hath certainly thy servant seeketh that Saul to come to Keilah to destroy the city

  • 1 Samuel 23:14 - abode And David in the wilderness in strong holds abode in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph sought And Saul him every day delivered but God him not into his hand

  • 1 Samuel 23:15 - saw And David was come out that Saul to seek his life And David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood

  • 1 Samuel 23:25 - And when Saul to seek him And they told David wherefore he came down into a rock and abode in the wilderness of Maon heard And when Saul that he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon

  • 1 Samuel 24:2 - took Then Saul three thousand men chosen out of all Israel to seek David men upon the rocks of the wild goats

  • 1 Samuel 24:9 - said And David to Saul Wherefore hearest words thou men's said And David seeketh thy hurt

  • 1 Samuel 25:26 - Now therefore my lord liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul hath withholden as the LORD thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand be as Nabal now let thine enemies and they that seek Now therefore my lord evil

  • 1 Samuel 25:29 - is risen Yet a man to pursue thee and to seek and the souls and the souls of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God and the souls of thine enemies them shall he sling out as out of the middle of a sling

  • 1 Samuel 26:2 - arose Then Saul and went down in the wilderness of Ziph having three thousand men chosen of Israel with him to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph

  • 1 Samuel 26:20 - fall Now therefore let not my blood to the earth before the face of the LORD is come out for the king of Israel to seek flea a as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains

  • 1 Samuel 27:1 - said And David in his heart I shall now perish day one by the hand and Saul there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily I should speedily into the land of the Philistines shall despair and Saul of me to seek me any more in any coast of Israel I should speedily by the hand

  • 1 Samuel 27:4 - And it was told Saul was fled that David to Gath no more again and he sought

  • 1 Samuel 28:7 - Then said Saul of her And his servants Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit to her and enquire Then said of her And his servants me a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor