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)


  • Job 10:6 - That thou enquirest after mine iniquity after my sin and searchest

  • Joshua 2:22 - and came unto the mountain and abode there three days were returned and the pursuers sought and the pursuers them throughout all the way but found

  • Joshua 22:23 - That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering or if to offer offerings peace the LORD himself require

  • Judges 4:22 - And behold as Barak pursued Sisera came out Jael to meet him and said and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest And when he came Sisera lay dead and the nail was in his temples

  • Judges 6:29 - And they said one to another Who hath done this thing And when they enquired and asked And they said Gideon the son of Joash Who hath done this thing

  • Judges 14:4 - But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD an occasion that he sought against the Philistines for at that time against the Philistines had dominion over Israel

  • Judges 18:1 - In those days there was no king in Israel In those days the tribe of the Danites sought all their inheritance to dwell in had not fallen In those days unto them among the tribe in Israel all their inheritance

  • Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh they seek bread they have given for meat to relieve the soul see O LORD and consider for I am become vile

  • Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders in the city gave up the ghost while they sought their meat to relieve their souls

  • Leviticus 19:31 - Regard not them that have familiar spirits after wizards neither seek to be defiled by them I am the LORD your God

  • Malachi 2:7 - lips For the priest's should keep knowledge the law and they should seek at his mouth for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 2:15 - And wherefore one And did not he make Yet had he the residue of the spirit And wherefore one That he might seek seed a godly Therefore take heed of the spirit against the wife of his youth and let none deal treacherously

  • Malachi 3:1 - Behold I will send even the messenger and he shall prepare the way before shall suddenly come to his temple me and the Lord whom ye seek even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight come saith the LORD of hosts

  • Nahum 3:7 - And it shall come to pass that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say is laid waste Nineveh who will bemoan her whence shall I seek comforters

  • Nahum 3:11 - Thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy

  • Nehemiah 2:4 - said Then the king unto me For what dost thou make request So I prayed to the God of heaven

  • Nehemiah 2:10 - heard When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel

  • Nehemiah 5:12 - Then said they We will restore them and will require nothing of them so will we do Then said Then I called the priests and took an oath nothing of them so will we do according to this promise

  • Nehemiah 5:18 - Now that which was prepared days was one ox was one sheep and six choice also fowls Now that which was prepared for me and once in ten days of all sorts of wine store yet for all not I the bread of the governor this required was heavy because the bondage upon this people

  • Nehemiah 7:64 - These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy but it was not found therefore were they as polluted put from the priesthood