da.rash H1875

דָּרַשׁ (da.rash) means “to seek” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

דָּרַשׁ Hebrew · H1875 164 tagged occurrences in 152 verses

Pronunciation guide: daw-rash' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1875

דָּרַשׁ · da.rash · to seek

1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place) 1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek 1a2a) of God 1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers 1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship 1a3a) God 1a3b) heathen deities 1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require 1a5) to investigate, enquire 1a6) to ask for, require, demand 1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application 1a8) to seek with care, care for 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God) 1b2) to be sought, be sought out 1b3) to be required (of blood)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship

KJV glosses: ask, [idiom] at all, care for, [idiom] diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), [idiom] surely.

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How translators render H1875

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
seek	15
to inquire	12
to seek	9
inquire	5
and inquire	3
be consulted	3
cares	3
he sought	3
seeking	3
i have sought	2
i sought	2
if any seek	2
on seeking	2
search	2
seek me	2
seek out	2
you seek him	2
accountable	1
and after they had investigated thoroughly	1
and call you to account	1
and consult	1
and i will demand	1
and inquired	1
and search out	1
and seek him	1
and seek out	1
and will require	1
but those who seek	1
call him to account	1
call me to account	1
comes seeking it	1
consult	1
consult him	1
consulted	1
disregard it	1
for guidance	1
for you to inquire	1
have you sought	1
i have sought you	1
i revealed myself	1
i will demand an accounting	1
i will hear the plea	1
i will require	1
i would appeal	1
if you seek him	1
in any way	1
in order to seek	1
inquire of him	1
inquire of them	1
inquired of him there	1
inquiring of him	1
let us inquire	1
of the inquirer	1
of those who seek him	1
of whom we can inquire	1
or inquires	1
questioned	1
require	1
required	1
searched carefully	1
searches	1
searching	1
seek him	1
seek you	1
seeking sustenance	1
shall investigate	1
she selects	1
should i consult	1
so that they will resort	1
sought	1
sought out	1
the avenger	1
the records were searched	1
then you must inquire	1
these men to inquire	1
they are pondered	1
they had sought	1
they launched	1
they seek me	1
they would seek him	1
those who seek	1
those who seek you	1
those who wish me	1
through whom we can inquire	1
through whom we can inquire of	1
to	1
to ask	1
to consult	1
to him who seeks it	1
to inquire about	1
to search for them	1
to study	1
we have sought	1
we have sought him	1
we must account for	1
we seek	1
who seeks him	1
will hold accountable	1
will search for	1
will seek him	1
will surely require it	1
you must investigate it	1
you must seek	1
you search for me	1
you who seek	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to seek	13
seek	12
to enquire	10
enquire	5
and enquired	3
will i require	3
and enquire	2
and seek	2
by whom we may enquire	2
he sought	2
i sought	2
i will not be enquired	2
if thou seek	2
require	2
seeketh	2
sought	2
sought out	2
that seek	2
you to enquire	2
and have not sought	1
and he searcheth	1
and he sought	1
and i will require	1
and none did search	1
and require	1
and searchest	1
and seeking	1
and shall i be enquired	1
and sought	1
and they that seek	1
and when they enquired	1
and whom they have sought	1
because they sought	1
besides that we might enquire	1
but he that seeketh	1
but seek	1
but sought	1
but they that seek	1
careth for	1
diligently	1
for i seek	1
for they seek	1
have i sought	1
i am sought	1
i will both search	1
i will require	1
i would seek	1
inquisition	1
is required	1
it to enquire	1
let them seek	1
me for i have sought	1
me no man cared	1
neither seek	1
nor enquired	1
nor seek	1
of at all	1
of him that seeketh	1
of them that seek	1
or a necromancer	1
questioned	1
regard	1
search	1
searcheth	1
seek out	1
seek ye out	1
seeking	1
shall ye seek	1
she seeketh	1
should i be enquired	1
that did seek	1
that have sought	1
that we may enquire	1
that we might enquire	1
that whosoever would not seek	1
thee and that thou enquire	1
thee they seek	1
them and there will i require	1
them neither do they seek	1
them that seek	1
them then they sought	1
then shalt thou enquire	1
thereof and they shall seek	1
they were sought	1
this be enquired	1
thou shalt not seek	1
thou wilt not require	1
to ask	1
to examine	1
to her and enquire	1
to us for we enquired	1
unto him to enquire	1
unto him why hast thou not required	1
unto him why hast thou sought	1
unto me to enquire	1
unto you seek	1
upon us for that we sought	1
us because we have sought	1
we have sought	1
when he maketh inquisition	1
when ye shall search	1
who sought	1
whom no man seeketh after	1
will i require it	1
will not seek	1
will surely	1
with you for we seek	1
with you while ye be with him and if ye seek	1
ye enquire	1
yet they seek	1
you unto me to enquire	1

Verses containing H1875

Page 2 of 4. 152 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

2 Chronicles 15:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
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2 Chronicles 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
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2 Chronicles 17:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,
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2 Chronicles 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
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2 Chronicles 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here of whom we can inquire?”
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2 Chronicles 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
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2 Chronicles 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
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2 Chronicles 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
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2 Chronicles 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.
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2 Chronicles 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”
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2 Chronicles 24:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
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2 Chronicles 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
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2 Chronicles 25:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Amaziah would not listen, for this had come from God in order to deliver them into the hand of Jehoash, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
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2 Chronicles 26:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
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2 Chronicles 30:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
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2 Chronicles 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,
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2 Chronicles 31:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
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2 Chronicles 32:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
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2 Chronicles 34:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
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2 Chronicles 34:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
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2 Chronicles 34:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
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Ezra 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
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Ezra 6:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Ezra 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
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Ezra 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
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Ezra 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
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Esther 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
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Job 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
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Job 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
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Job 10:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
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Job 39:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
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Psalms 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
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Source alternate reference: 9.11
Psalms 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
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Source alternate reference: 9.13
Psalms 10:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
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Psalms 10:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
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Psalms 10:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
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Psalms 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
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Psalms 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
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Source alternate reference: 22.27
Psalms 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
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Psalms 34:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
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Source alternate reference: 34.5
Psalms 34:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
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Source alternate reference: 34.11
Psalms 38:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
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Source alternate reference: 38.13
Psalms 53:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
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Source alternate reference: 53.3
Psalms 69:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
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Source alternate reference: 69.33
Psalms 77:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
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Source alternate reference: 77.3
Psalms 78:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
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Psalms 105:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
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Psalms 109:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
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Psalms 111:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
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