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;
2 Samuel 21:2 - called And the king the Gibeonites and said the Gibeonites and the children of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites and the children of Israel had sworn sought unto them and Saul to slay them in his zeal and the children of Israel and Judah
Amos 8:12 - And they shall wander from sea from sea and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD and shall not find
Daniel 1:8 - purposed But Daniel in his heart that he might not defile himself with the portion of the king's nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile
Daniel 1:20 - And in all matters of wisdom and understanding enquired that the king of them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm
Daniel 8:15 - had seen And it came to pass when I even I Daniel the vision and sought for the meaning then behold there stood before me as the appearance of a man
Daniel 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes
Deuteronomy 4:29 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul
Deuteronomy 13:10 - And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage
Ecclesiastes 3:6 - A time to get A time to lose A time to keep A time to cast away
Ecclesiastes 3:15 - That which hath been is now That which hath been is now been and God requireth that which is past
Ecclesiastes 7:25 - I applied mine heart of things and 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 7:28 - seeketh Which yet my soul among all those have I not found man not one among a thousand among all those have I not found but a woman among all those have I not found
Ecclesiastes 7:29 - this only Lo have I found hath made that God man upright but they have sought out inventions many
Ecclesiastes 8:17 - Then I beheld all the work of God cannot a man find out all the work because that is done under the sun though because labour a man to seek it out find out man think it yea further though a wise to know cannot find out
Ecclesiastes 12:10 - sought The preacher to find out even words acceptable and that which was written was upright even words of truth
Esther 2:2 - Then said servants for the king that ministered sought for the king young virgins unto him Let there be fair
Esther 2:15 - was come Now when the turn And Esther her for his daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for his daughter to go in the king's she required nothing appointed but what Hegai chamberlain the king's the keeper of the women And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked
Esther 2:21 - In those days while Mordecai sat gate in the king's were wroth Bigthan and Teresh two chamberlains in the king's of those which kept the door and sought to lay hand in the king's Ahasuerus
Esther 2:23 - And when inquisition of the chronicles it was found out hanged therefore they were both on a tree and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king
Esther 3:6 - scorn And he thought to lay hands of Mordecai alone for they had shewed even the people of Mordecai sought wherefore Haman to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus even the people of Mordecai