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G2212ζητέωzēteō

to seekPart of speech: Greek Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 14
  2. 10
  3. 26
  4. 35
  5. 10
  6. 4
  7. 8
  8. 2
  9. 2
  10. Ephesians: 0
  11. 1
  12. 1
  13. 1
  14. 2 Thessalonians: 0
  15. 1 Timothy: 0
  16. 1
  17. Titus: 0
  18. Philemon: 0
  19. 1
  20. James: 0
  21. 2
  22. 2 Peter: 0
  23. 1 John: 0
  24. 2 John: 0
  25. 3 John: 0
  26. Jude: 0
  27. 1

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119 occurrences in 116 verses

With their references and text in Young's Literal Translation.

  1. John 11:56

    they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

    ἐζήτουν ezētoun “They were seeking”

  2. John 13:33

    `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.

    ζητήσετέ zētēsete “You will seek”

  3. John 16:19

    Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

    ζητεῖτε zēteite “do you inquire”

  4. John 18:4

    Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?'

    ζητεῖτε; zēteite “seek you?”

  5. John 18:7

    Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'

    ζητεῖτε; zēteite “seek you?”

  6. John 18:8

    Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am `he'; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

    ζητεῖτε, zēteite “you seek,”

  7. John 19:12

    From this `time' was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

    ἐζήτει ezētei “was seeking”

  8. John 20:15

    Jesus saith to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;' she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, `Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay him, and I will take him away;'

    ζητεῖς; zēteis “do you seek?”

  9. Acts 9:11

    and the Lord `saith' unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, `one' by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,

    ζήτησον zētēson “do seek”

  10. Acts 10:19

    And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;

    ζητοῦντές zētountes “are seeking”

  11. Acts 10:21

    and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, `Lo, I am he whom ye seek, what `is' the cause for which ye are present?'

    ζητεῖτε· zēteite “you seek;”

  12. Acts 13:8

    and there withstood them Elymas the magian -- for so is his name interpreted -- seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

    ζητῶν zētōn “seeking”

  13. Acts 13:11

    and now, lo, a hand of the Lord `is' upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead `him' by the hand;

    ἐζήτει ezētei “he was seeking”

  14. Acts 16:10

    and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,

    ἐζητήσαμεν ezētēsamen “we sought”

  15. Acts 17:5

    And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring `them' to the populace,

    ἐζήτουν ezētoun “they were seeking”

  16. Acts 17:27

    to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

    ζητεῖν zētein “to seek”

  17. Acts 21:31

    and they seeking to kill him, a rumour came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem hath been thrown into confusion,

    ζητούντων zētountōn “Of them seeking”

  18. Acts 27:30

    And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as `if' out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,

    ζητούντων zētountōn “seeking”

  19. Romans 2:7

    to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

    ζητοῦσιν zētousin “are seeking”

  20. Romans 10:3

    for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

    ζητοῦντες zētountes “seeking”

  21. Romans 10:20

    and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'

    ζητοῦσιν, zētousin “seeking,”

  22. Romans 11:3

    `Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

    ζητοῦσιν zētousin “they are seeking”

  23. 1 Corinthians 1:22

    Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

    ζητοῦσιν, zētousin “seek,”

  24. 1 Corinthians 4:2

    and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

    ζητεῖται zēteitai “it is required”

  25. 1 Corinthians 7:27

    Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

    ζήτει zētei “do seek”ζήτει zētei “do seek”