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H1245בָּקַשׁba.qash

to seekPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 5
  2. 5
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 2
  6. 2
  7. 4
  8. 1
  9. 26
  10. 11
  11. 10
  12. 3
  13. 5
  14. 8
  15. 4
  16. 6
  17. 9
  18. 1
  19. 27
  20. 14
  21. 7
  22. 6
  23. 7
  24. 23
  25. 2
  26. 10
  27. 4
  28. 5
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. 2
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 4
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 5
  39. 3

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225 occurrences in 215 verses

With their references and text in American Standard Version.

  1. Song of Songs 3:1

    By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

    בִּקַּ֕שְׁתִּי bi.Kash.ti “I sought”בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖י) bi.kash.Ti “I sought”

  2. Song of Songs 3:2

    [supplied: I said], 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.

    אֲבַקְשָׁ֕ה 'a.vak.Shah “I will seek”בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖י) bi.kash.Ti “I sought”

  3. Song of Songs 5:6

    I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [supplied: and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

    בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֙יהוּ֙ (בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֙י) bi.kash.Ti. “I sought”

  4. Song of Songs 6:1

    Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may seek him with thee?

    וּנְבַקְשֶׁ֖נּוּ (נְבַקְשֶׁ֖) ne.vak.She. “we may seek”

  5. Isaiah 1:12

    When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

    בִקֵּ֥שׁ vi.Kesh “did he require”

  6. Isaiah 40:20

    He that is too impoverished for [supplied: such] an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

    יְבַקֶּשׁ־ ye.va.kesh- “he seeks”

  7. Isaiah 41:12

    Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

    תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙ (תְּבַקְשֵׁ) te.vak.She “you will seek”

  8. Isaiah 41:17

    The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

    מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים me.vak.Shim “[are] seeking”

  9. Isaiah 45:19

    I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

    בַקְּשׁ֑וּנִי (בַקְּשׁ֑וּ) va.ke.Shu. “seek”

  10. Isaiah 51:1

    Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were digged.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  11. Isaiah 65:1

    I am inquired of by them that asked not [supplied: for me]; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

    בִקְשֻׁ֑נִי (בִקְשֻׁ֑) vik.Shu. “they had sought”

  12. Jeremiah 2:24

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

    מְבַקְשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ (מְבַקְשֶׁ֙י) me.vak.Shei. “[those who] seek”

  13. Jeremiah 2:33

    How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

    לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (בַקֵּ֣שׁ) va.Kesh “seek”

  14. Jeremiah 4:30

    And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; [supplied: thy] lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

    יְבַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃ ye.va.Ke.shu “they seek”

  15. Jeremiah 5:1

    Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

    וּבַקְשׁ֣וּ (בַקְשׁ֣וּ) vak.Shu “search”מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ me.va.Kesh “[one who] seeks”

  16. Jeremiah 11:21

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand;

    הַֽמְבַקְשִׁ֥ים (מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים) m.vak.Shim “are seeking”

  17. Jeremiah 19:7

    And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  18. Jeremiah 19:9

    And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

    וּמְבַקְשֵׁ֥י (מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י) me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  19. Jeremiah 21:7

    And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  20. Jeremiah 22:25

    and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  21. Jeremiah 26:21

    and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

    וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ) y.va.Kesh “he sought”

  22. Jeremiah 29:13

    And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

    וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם (בִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם) vi.kash.Tem “you will seek”

  23. Jeremiah 34:20

    I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  24. Jeremiah 34:21

    And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, that are gone away from you.

    מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י me.vak.Shei “[those who] seek”

  25. Jeremiah 38:16

    So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

    מְבַקְשִׁ֖ים me.vak.Shim “[are] seeking”