Genesis 37:16
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
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Seek
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Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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54 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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בָּקַשׁ
bâqash · baw-kash'
110 times translated as this KJV form225 total Strong's occurrences
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Strong's KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 37:16Strong's last: Malachi 3:1
Open full H1245 profile →דָּרַשׁ
dârash · daw-rash'
53 times translated as this KJV form163 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Strong's KJV usage: ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 4:29Strong's last: Amos 5:14
Open full H1875 profile →ζητέω
zētéō · dzay-teh'-o
45 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 2:13Strong's last: Revelation 9:6
Open full G2212 profile →ἐπιζητέω
epizētéō · ep-eed-zay-teh'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to search (inquire) for; intensively, to demand, to crave
Strong's KJV usage: :--desire, enquire, seek (after, for).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:32Strong's last: Hebrews 13:14
Open full G1934 profile →שָׁחַר
shâchar · shaw-khar'
3 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking)
Strong's KJV usage: (do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).
Strong's first: Job 8:5Strong's last: Proverbs 7:15
Open full H7836 profile →ἐκζητέω
ekzētéō · ek-zay-teh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to search out, i.e. (figuratively)investigate, crave, demand, (by Hebraism) worship
Strong's KJV usage: :--en- (re-)quire, seek after (carefully, diligently).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 15:17Strong's last: Hebrews 11:6
Open full G1567 profile →ἀναζητέω
anazētéō · an-ad-zay-teh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to search out
Strong's KJV usage: :--seek.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 11:25Strong's last: Acts 11:25
Open full G327 profile →אוּלָם
ʼûwlâm · oo-lawm'
1 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
however or on the contrary
Strong's KJV usage: as for, but, howbeit, in very deed, surely, truly, wherefore.
Strong's first: Job 5:8Strong's last: Job 5:8
Open full H199 profile →בָּקַר
bâqar · baw-kar
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to plough, or (generally) break forth, i.e. (figuratively) to inspect, admire, care for, consider
Strong's KJV usage: (make) inquire (-ry), (make) search, seek out.
Strong's first: Leviticus 13:36Strong's last: Leviticus 13:36
Open full H1239 profile →חָקַר
châqar · khaw-kar'
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
Strong's KJV usage: find out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 23:30Strong's last: Proverbs 23:30
Open full H2713 profile →קִרְאָה
qirʼâh · keer-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form121 total Strong's occurrences
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Strong's KJV usage: × against (he come), help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.
Strong's first: Numbers 24:1Strong's last: Numbers 24:1
Open full H7125 profile →תּוּר
tûwr · toor
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring
Strong's KJV usage: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 15:39Strong's last: Numbers 15:39
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H1245
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
no direct Strong's tag
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
H1239
Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
H1245
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
H8446
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
H1245
And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
H7125
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
H1245
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.
H1875
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.
H1875
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
H1875
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
H1875
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
H1245
Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
H1245
And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
H1245
When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
H1245
And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
no direct Strong's tag
Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
H1245
And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
H1245
Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
H1245
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
H1245
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
H1245
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
H1245
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
H1245
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
H1245
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
English meaning and historical usage.
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seek
SEEK, verb transitive pret and participle passive sought, pronounced sawt. [L. sequor, to follow; for to seek is to go after, and the primary sense is to advance, to press, to drive forward, as in the L. peto.]
1. To go in searh or quest of; to look for; to search for by going from place to place.
The man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethen.
Genesis 37:16.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to endeavor to find or gain by any means.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Psalms 104:21.
He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:1
Others tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke 11:9.
3.Seek is followed sometimes by out or after. To seek out, properly implies to look for a specific thing among a number. But in general, the use of out and after with seek, is unnecessary and inelegant.
To seek God, his name, or his face, in Scripture, to ask for his favor, direction and assistance. Psalms 83:16.
God seeks men, when he fixes his love on them, and by his word and Spirit, and the righteousness of Christ, reclaims and recovers them from their miserable condition as sinners.
Ezekiel 34:6. Psa 119. Luke 15:8.
To seek after the life, or soul, to attempt by arts or machinations; or to attempt to destroy or ruin. Psa 35.
To seek peace, or judgement, to endeavor to promote it; or to practice it.
Psa 34. Isaiah 1:17.
To seek an altar, temple, or habitation, to frequent it; to restore to it often.
2 Chronicles 1:1. Amos 5:4.
To seek out God's works, to endeavor to understand them. Psa 111.
SEEK, v. i.
1. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord. Isaiah 34:16.
2. To endeavor.
Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know
Their process, or the forms of law below. Dryden.
To seek after, to make pursuit; to attempt to find or take. [See No. 3 supra.]
To seek for, to endeavor to find. Knolles.
To seek to, to apply to; to resort to. 1 Kings 10:1.
To seek, at a loss; without knowledge, measures or experience.
Unpractic'd, unprepar'd and still to seek. Milton. [This phrase, I believe, is wholly obsolete.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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