H1245 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)

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  • 1 Kings 1:2 - said Wherefore his servants unto him Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin and let her stand before the king and let her cherish him and let her lie in thy bosom may get heat for my lord the king

  • 1 Kings 1:3 - So they sought damsel for a fair throughout all the coasts of Israel and found Abishag a Shunammite and brought her to the king

  • Zephaniah 1:6 - And them that are turned back from the LORD and those that have not sought the LORD nor enquired

  • 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

  • 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

  • Isaiah 1:12 - When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts

  • 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

  • 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

  • Esther 2:2 - Then said servants for the king that ministered sought for the king young virgins unto him Let there be fair

  • Zephaniah 2:3 - Seek of the LORD'S all ye meek of the earth his judgment which have wrought Seek righteousness Seek meekness it may be ye shall be hid in the day anger of the LORD'S

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

  • Proverbs 2:4 - If thou seekest her as silver for her as for hid treasures and searchest

  • Hosea 2:7 - And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not find them then shall she say and return husband to my first for then was it better with me than now

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 2:16 - And he said unto him Behold now there be with thy servants fifty men strong we pray thee and seek thy master hath taken him up lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD and cast him upon some mountain him upon some valley And he said Ye shall not send

  • 2 Kings 2:17 - And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send Send therefore fifty men and they sought three days but found

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 2:24 - A wild ass used to the wilderness at her pleasure that snuffeth up the wind in her occasion who can turn her away all they that seek her will not weary themselves in her month they shall find

  • Jeremiah 2:33 - Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love the wicked ones therefore hast thou also taught thou thy way

  • 1 Kings 2:40 - arose And Shimei and saddled his ass from Gath to Achish to seek his servants And Shimei and brought his servants from Gath

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ruth 3:1 - said Then Naomi her mother in law unto her My daughter shall I not seek rest for thee that it may be well

  • Song of Solomon 3:1 - on my bed By night I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Song of Solomon 3:2 - I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found

  • Hosea 3:5 - Afterward return shall the children of Israel and seek the LORD their God and David their king and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days

  • Ecclesiastes 3:6 - A time to get A time to lose A time to keep A time to cast away

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ecclesiastes 3:15 - That which hath been is now That which hath been is now been and God requireth that which is past

  • 2 Samuel 3:17 - And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel saying in times past had communication Ye sought for David to be king

  • 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

  • Psalms 4:2 - O ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shame how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing Selah

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 4:8 - And they brought Behold the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron and said the king Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy which sought thy life hath and the LORD my lord the king avenged this day of Saul and of his seed

  • 2 Samuel 4:11 - person How much more when wicked have slain person a righteous in his own house upon his bed shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand and take you away from the earth

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do Though thou clothest thyself with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest with painting thy face in vain shalt thou make thyself fair will despise thy lovers thy life thee they will seek

  • 1 Chronicles 4:39 - to the entrance of Gedor even unto the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks

  • Jeremiah 5:1 - Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places thereof if ye can find a man if there be any that executeth judgment and seek the truth and I will pardon

  • Hosea 5:6 - with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD but they shall not find him he hath withdrawn

  • Song of Solomon 5:6 - I opened but my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but I could not find him I called him but he gave me no answer

  • 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

  • Hosea 5:15 - and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early

  • 2 Samuel 5:17 - heard But when the Philistines that they had anointed David king over Israel came up But when the Philistines to seek David heard David of it and went down to the hold

  • 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

  • Song of Solomon 6:1 - gone Whither is thy beloved O thou fairest among women turned aside Whither is thy beloved that we may seek

  • 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

  • Zechariah 6:7 - And the bay went forth and sought So they walked to and fro So they walked to and fro through the earth and he said So they walked to and fro So they walked to and fro through the earth So they walked to and fro through the earth

  • 2 Kings 6:19 - said And Elisha unto them This is not the way neither is this the city you to the man whom ye seek them to Samaria

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hosea 7:10 - testifieth And the pride of Israel to his face and they do not return to the LORD their God nor seek

  • 2 Chronicles 7:14 - shall humble If my people which are called by my name themselves and pray and seek my face and turn ways from their wicked then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Ezra 8:21 - Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God to seek way of him a right for us and for our little ones and for all our substance

  • Zechariah 8:21 - city shall go And the inhabitants of one of one saying city shall go city shall go to pray before the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts city shall go

  • Ezra 8:22 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken of the king because we had spoken The hand of our God that seek is upon all them for good him but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake

  • Zechariah 8:22 - shall come people Yea many nations and strong to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the LORD

  • Ezra 8:23 - So we fasted and besought our God for this and he was intreated

  • 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

  • Daniel 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes

  • 1 Samuel 9:3 - were lost And the asses And Kish father Saul's said And Kish Saul's his son Take now one of the servants with thee and arise seek And the asses

  • 2 Chronicles 9:23 - And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom had put that God in his heart

  • 1 Samuel 10:2 - which thou wentest to day from me are found two sepulchre by Rachel's in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah and they will say are found of the asses which thou wentest to seek hath left and lo thy father the care of the asses and sorroweth and they will say What shall I do for my son

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

  • 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

  • 1 Samuel 10:14 - said uncle And Saul's unto him and to his servant Whither went said To seek the asses and when we saw that they were no where we came to Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 10:21 - to come near When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin by their families was taken by their families of Matri was taken and Saul the son of Kish and when they sought him he could not be found

  • 1 Kings 10:24 - And all the earth sought to Solomon to hear his wisdom had put which God in his heart

  • 2 Chronicles 11:16 - And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice the LORD God of their fathers

  • Zechariah 11:16 - For lo I will raise up a shepherd in the land those that be cut off which shall not visit the young one neither shall seek that that is broken nor heal that that standeth nor feed the flesh of the fat still but he shall eat their claws and tear

  • Jeremiah 11:21 - Therefore thus saith of the LORD of Anathoth that seek thy life Therefore thus saith Prophesy not in the name of the LORD that thou die not by our hand

  • 1 Kings 11:22 - And he answered Then Pharaoh unto him But what hast thou lacked with me that behold thou seekest to thine own country And he answered Nothing howbeit let me go Nothing howbeit let me go

  • Proverbs 11:27 - He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour but he that seeketh mischief it shall come

  • 1 Kings 11:40 - sought Solomon therefore to kill And Jeroboam arose And Jeroboam and fled and was in Egypt unto Shishak king and was in Egypt and was in Egypt until the death Solomon

  • Zechariah 12:9 - And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem

  • Ecclesiastes 12:10 - sought The preacher to find out even words acceptable and that which was written was upright even words of truth

  • 2 Samuel 12:16 - therefore besought David God for the child fasted David and went in all night and lay upon the earth

  • Nehemiah 12:27 - And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places to bring of Jerusalem to keep And at the dedication with gladness both with thanksgivings and with singing with cymbals psalteries and with harps

  • 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

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