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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39 occurrences in 35 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Leviticus
22 verses
Numbers
33 verses
Deuteronomy
54 verses
Ruth
11 verses
1 Samuel
1313 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
44 verses
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22 verses
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87 verses
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1313 verses
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66 verses
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11 verses
Job
44 verses
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3935 verses
Proverbs
99 verses
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33 verses
Song of Solomon
22 verses
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1615 verses
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2020 verses
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11 verses
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66 verses
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11 verses
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76 verses
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66 verses
Nahum
22 verses
Zephaniah
31 verses
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44 verses
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33 verses
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55 verses
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44 verses
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1010 verses
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1515 verses
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55 verses
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22 verses
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54 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
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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244 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H1875
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
H1875
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
H1245
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
H1245
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
no direct Strong's tag
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
H7836
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
no direct Strong's tag
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
H1245
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
H2713
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
H1245
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
H1245
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
H1245
The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
H1245
Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
H1875
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
no direct Strong's tag
I applied mine heart 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:
no direct Strong's tag
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
H1245
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
H1245
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
H1875
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
H1875
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
H1875
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
H1875
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
H1875
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
H1875
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
no direct Strong's tag
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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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