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)


  • Esther 4:8 - him the copy of the writing of the decree Also he gave at Shushan to destroy Also he gave them to shew it unto Esther and to declare it unto her and to charge her that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people

  • Esther 6:2 - And it was found written had told that Mordecai of Bigthana and Teresh two chamberlains of the king's the keepers of the door who sought to lay hand of the king's Ahasuerus

  • Esther 7:7 - And the king arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine garden went into the palace and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen for he saw determined that there was evil And the king

  • Esther 9:2 - gathered themselves together The Jews 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 of them fell for the fear upon all people

  • Exodus 2:15 - heard Now when Pharaoh this thing he sought to slay But Moses fled But Moses from the face Now when Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and dwelt by a well

  • Exodus 4:19 - said And the LORD unto Moses in Midian return into Egypt are dead for all the men which sought thy life

  • Exodus 4:24 - And it came to pass by the way in the inn met that the LORD him and sought to kill

  • Exodus 10:11 - now ye that are men and serve the LORD for that ye did desire And they were driven out presence from Pharaoh's

  • Exodus 33:7 - And Moses took it the Tabernacle and pitched it without from the camp afar off from the camp and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation And it came to pass that every one which sought the LORD went out it the Tabernacle of the congregation it without from the camp

  • Ezekiel 3:18 - When I say from his wicked Thou shalt surely Thou shalt surely and thou givest him not warning nor speakest and thou givest him not warning from his wicked way from his wicked to save his life from his wicked in his iniquity Thou shalt surely but his blood at thine hand will I require

  • Ezekiel 3:20 - Again When a righteous from his righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock before he shall die because thou hast not given him warning in his sin he shall die shall not be remembered and his righteousness and commit but his blood at thine hand will I require

  • Ezekiel 7:25 - Destruction cometh and they shall seek peace

  • Ezekiel 7:26 - Mischief Mischief shall come and rumour and rumour then shall they seek a vision of the prophet but the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the ancients

  • Ezekiel 22:30 - And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found

  • Ezekiel 26:21 - thee a terror I will make and thou shalt be no more though thou be sought for be found yet shalt thou never again saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 33:8 - When I say O wicked O wicked die die if thou dost not speak to warn O wicked from his way O wicked in his iniquity die but his blood at thine hand will I require

  • Ezekiel 34:4 - The diseased have ye not strengthened The diseased neither have ye healed that which was broken neither have ye bound up that which was driven away neither have ye brought again that which was lost neither have ye sought but with force have ye ruled and with cruelty

  • Ezekiel 34:6 - wandered My sheep through all the mountains hill and upon every high upon all the face of the earth was scattered My sheep and none did search or seek

  • Ezekiel 34:16 - that which was lost I will seek that which was driven away and bring again that which was broken and will bind up that which was sick and will strengthen the fat and the strong but I will destroy I will feed them with judgment

  • Ezra 2:62 - These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy but they were not found therefore were they as polluted put from the priesthood