בָּקַשׁ (ba.qash) means “to seek” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: baw-kash' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
בָּקַשׁ · ba.qash · to seek
1) to seek, require, desire, exact, request 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to seek to find 1a2) to seek to secure 1a3) to seek the face 1a4) to desire, demand 1a5) to require, exact 1a6) to ask, request 1b) (Pual) to be sought
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a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV glosses: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| seek | 14 |
| seeks | 7 |
| who seek | 7 |
| and seek | 6 |
| sought | 6 |
| to seek | 6 |
| i will seek | 4 |
| may those who seek | 4 |
| of those who seek | 4 |
| in search of | 3 |
| intends | 3 |
| seeking | 3 |
| those who seek | 3 |
| to look for | 3 |
| you will seek | 3 |
| and they are seeking | 2 |
| are seeking | 2 |
| i sought him | 2 |
| responsible for | 2 |
| searched for | 2 |
| searched for him | 2 |
| searching | 2 |
| seek me | 2 |
| to search for | 2 |
| to seek him | 2 |
| trying | 2 |
| want | 2 |
| who seek you | 2 |
| a search will be made | 1 |
| accountable | 1 |
| and ask him for | 1 |
| and conspired | 1 |
| and people should seek | 1 |
| and petitioned | 1 |
| and plead | 1 |
| and search for | 1 |
| and seek after | 1 |
| and sought him | 1 |
| and those who seek | 1 |
| and to seek | 1 |
| and trying to | 1 |
| and was about | 1 |
| and will require | 1 |
| and will seek | 1 |
| and you demanded | 1 |
| anyone who seeks | 1 |
| are you looking for | 1 |
| as they search | 1 |
| ask for | 1 |
| because he seeks | 1 |
| begging | 1 |
| but those who seek | 1 |
| but when they looked for him | 1 |
| but you are seeking | 1 |
| can i find | 1 |
| care for | 1 |
| consulted | 1 |
| demand | 1 |
| do not seek them out | 1 |
| do you seek | 1 |
| find | 1 |
| finds | 1 |
| had been investigated | 1 |
| had sought | 1 |
| has required | 1 |
| has sought | 1 |
| have been requesting | 1 |
| have sought out | 1 |
| having searched | 1 |
| he seeks | 1 |
| he sought | 1 |
| he wants to take | 1 |
| hold us accountable | 1 |
| i searched for | 1 |
| i sought | 1 |
| i will set out | 1 |
| in search | 1 |
| inquiring of | 1 |
| intend | 1 |
| intended | 1 |
| invites | 1 |
| is looking for | 1 |
| is seeking | 1 |
| let a search be made | 1 |
| let us search for | 1 |
| look for | 1 |
| looking for | 1 |
| may those who seek you | 1 |
| men seek | 1 |
| or searched for | 1 |
| pleaded | 1 |
| promotes | 1 |
| pursues | 1 |
| pursuit | 1 |
| request | 1 |
| require | 1 |
| search | 1 |
| searched | 1 |
| seek him | 1 |
| seek the life | 1 |
| seek them out | 1 |
| she will seek them | 1 |
| so he asked | 1 |
| so i sought him | 1 |
| someone to search for you | 1 |
| that they may seek | 1 |
| the men searched | 1 |
| then jehu looked for | 1 |
| then they searched | 1 |
| then they will seek | 1 |
| therefore sought | 1 |
| they had conspired | 1 |
| they had sought him | 1 |
| they searched for | 1 |
| they want to take | 1 |
| they were eager | 1 |
| they will seek | 1 |
| this is what i desire | 1 |
| those who sought | 1 |
| though i searched | 1 |
| to beg | 1 |
| to search | 1 |
| to search it out | 1 |
| to search out | 1 |
| to seek out | 1 |
| to take | 1 |
| to tears | 1 |
| tried | 1 |
| was looking for | 1 |
| was seeking | 1 |
| we will seek him | 1 |
| were sought out | 1 |
| who are seeking | 1 |
| who searched for | 1 |
| who seek her | 1 |
| who seek him | 1 |
| who sought | 1 |
| who want to take | 1 |
| who was seeking | 1 |
| will call to account | 1 |
| you are seeking | 1 |
| you may hold me | 1 |
| you pursue | 1 |
| you seek | 1 |
| you should seek | 1 |
| you sought | 1 |
| you who seek | 1 |
| you will be sought | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to seek | 20 |
| seek | 17 |
| sought | 14 |
| seeketh | 13 |
| that seek | 10 |
| and seek | 6 |
| and sought | 5 |
| i will seek | 5 |
| of them that seek | 5 |
| i sought | 4 |
| and he sought | 3 |
| will i require | 3 |
| and they seek | 2 |
| and they that seek | 2 |
| enquired | 2 |
| let all those that seek | 2 |
| of those that seek | 2 |
| them that seek | 2 |
| these sought | 2 |
| which sought | 2 |
| whom thou seekest | 2 |
| whom ye seek | 2 |
| all they that seek | 1 |
| and asked | 1 |
| and besought | 1 |
| and i sought | 1 |
| and seekest | 1 |
| and seeketh | 1 |
| and that sought | 1 |
| and they shall seek | 1 |
| and they should seek | 1 |
| and they sought | 1 |
| and to seek | 1 |
| and to seek out | 1 |
| and when inquisition | 1 |
| and when they had sought | 1 |
| and when they sought | 1 |
| and will require | 1 |
| and ye shall seek | 1 |
| because he hath sought | 1 |
| begging | 1 |
| but if from thence thou shalt seek | 1 |
| but they have sought out | 1 |
| but they that seek | 1 |
| didst thou require | 1 |
| even require | 1 |
| every one which sought | 1 |
| for my sake let not those that seek | 1 |
| for that ye did desire | 1 |
| for thyself seek | 1 |
| hath sought | 1 |
| have sought | 1 |
| he seeketh | 1 |
| he sought | 1 |
| him and sought | 1 |
| him that seek | 1 |
| himself require | 1 |
| himself seeketh | 1 |
| i seek | 1 |
| if thou seekest | 1 |
| me who hath required | 1 |
| neither have ye sought | 1 |
| neither seek | 1 |
| neither shall seek | 1 |
| neither sought | 1 |
| nor seek | 1 |
| not for he that seeketh | 1 |
| not yea i sought | 1 |
| of me to seek | 1 |
| on such as sought | 1 |
| or seek | 1 |
| out | 1 |
| procureth | 1 |
| require | 1 |
| requireth | 1 |
| shall be sought for | 1 |
| shall i not seek | 1 |
| shall i not therefore now require | 1 |
| shall i seek | 1 |
| shalt thou require | 1 |
| she required | 1 |
| so they sought | 1 |
| that have not sought | 1 |
| that he might seek | 1 |
| that he seeketh | 1 |
| that he sought | 1 |
| that seeketh | 1 |
| that they may seek | 1 |
| that thou enquirest | 1 |
| that we may seek | 1 |
| that will i seek | 1 |
| thee and to seek | 1 |
| thee they will seek | 1 |
| thee to seek out | 1 |
| them and she shall seek | 1 |
| then shall they seek | 1 |
| therefore besought | 1 |
| therefore he requested | 1 |
| they also that seek | 1 |
| they seek | 1 |
| they sought | 1 |
| this required | 1 |
| thou also shalt seek | 1 |
| thou seekest | 1 |
| thou shalt seek | 1 |
| though thou be sought for | 1 |
| to ask | 1 |
| to get | 1 |
| to make request | 1 |
| unto him and to make request | 1 |
| unto him let there be sought | 1 |
| unto me for what dost thou make request | 1 |
| we pray thee and seek | 1 |
| what seekest | 1 |
| while they sought | 1 |
| who sought | 1 |
| will i seek | 1 |
| with him to seek | 1 |
| with me that behold thou seekest | 1 |
| with thee and seek | 1 |
| ye sought | 1 |
| ye that seek | 1 |
Page 4 of 5. 215 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
Read word by wordI will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
Read word by wordI opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
Read word by wordWhere has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
Read word by wordWhen you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
Read word by wordOne lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
Read word by wordYou will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
Read word by wordThe poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Read word by wordI have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Read word by word“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
Read word by word“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
Read word by worda wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
Read word by wordHow skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Read word by wordAnd you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
Read word by word“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
Read word by wordAnd in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordI will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
Read word by word‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
Read word by wordIn fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
Read word by wordKing Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.
Read word by wordYou will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Read word by wordI will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
Read word by wordAnd I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
Read word by wordBut King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
Read word by wordBut as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
Read word by wordI will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
Read word by wordSo I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
Read word by word“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
Read word by wordIn those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Read word by wordAll her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
Read word by wordI called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Read word by wordIf I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
Read word by wordNow if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
Read word by wordAnguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
Read word by wordDisaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
Read word by wordI searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
Read word by wordI will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Read word by wordIf I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
Read word by wordYou have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
Read word by wordMy flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
Read word by wordI will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
Read word by wordBut Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Read word by wordIn every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
Read word by wordWhile I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
Read word by wordSo I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Read word by wordShe will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.9
Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
Read word by wordThey go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
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