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True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

ζητέω

G2212 · zētéō · dzay-teh'-o · Greek

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Strong’s definition

to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)

KJV usage

:--be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means).

124mapped occurrences
116verses
37KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

seek 29sought 29seeking 11seek ye 5for 5seeketh 4about 4he that seeketh 3ye seek 3desiring 2required 2Ye shall seek 2and seeketh 1ye sought 1desired 1shall be 1and sought 1will seek 1shall seek 1to seek 1ye 1thou 1I seek 1Ye seek 1he 1go ye about 1ye shall seek 1one that seeketh 1they 1Do ye inquire 1to 1seekest thou 1inquire 1endeavoured 1we 1out 1shall 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Romans 10:20Mapped KJV word: sought

But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

Romans 11:3Mapped KJV word: seek

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

1 Corinthians 1:22Mapped KJV word: seek

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

1 Corinthians 4:2Mapped KJV word: required

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

1 Corinthians 7:27Mapped KJV word: seek

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:27Mapped KJV word: seek

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

1 Corinthians 10:24Mapped KJV word: seek

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

1 Corinthians 10:33Mapped KJV word: seeking

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 13:5Mapped KJV word: seeketh

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1 Corinthians 14:12Mapped KJV word: seek

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

2 Corinthians 12:14Mapped KJV word: seek

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2 Corinthians 13:3Mapped KJV word: seek

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Galatians 1:10Mapped KJV word: seek

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Galatians 2:17Mapped KJV word: seek

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Philippians 2:21Mapped KJV word: seek

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

Colossians 3:1Mapped KJV word: seek

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:6Mapped KJV word: we

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

2 Timothy 1:17Mapped KJV word: sought

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

2 Timothy 1:17Mapped KJV word: out

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Hebrews 8:7Mapped KJV word: sought

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

1 Peter 3:11Mapped KJV word: seek

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

1 Peter 5:8Mapped KJV word: seeking

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Revelation 9:6Mapped KJV word: shall

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Revelation 9:6Mapped KJV word: seek

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.