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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 World English Bible.

  1. Song of Songs 3:1

    By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

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

  2. Song of Songs 3:2

    I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

    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 left; gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

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

  4. Song of Songs 6:1

    Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

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

  5. Isaiah 1:12

    When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

    בִקֵּ֥שׁ vi.Kesh “did he require”

  6. Isaiah 40:20

    He who is too impoverished for [supplied: such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.

    יְבַקֶּשׁ־ ye.va.kesh- “he seeks”

  7. Isaiah 41:12

    You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.

    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 fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, 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 didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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

  10. Isaiah 51:1

    Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.

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

  11. Isaiah 65:1

    I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

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

  12. Jeremiah 2:24

    a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all those who 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 you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.

    לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (בַקֵּ֣שׁ) va.Kesh “seek”

  14. Jeremiah 4:30

    You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [supplied: your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

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

  15. Jeremiah 5:1

    Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

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

  16. Jeremiah 11:21

    Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you not die by our hand;

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

  17. Jeremiah 19:7

    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 those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

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

  18. Jeremiah 19:9

    I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

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

  19. Jeremiah 21:7

    Afterward, says Yahweh, 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 who seek their life: and he shall strike 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 you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are 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

    You shall seek me, and find me, when you 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 those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.

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

  24. Jeremiah 34:21

    Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.

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

  25. Jeremiah 38:16

    So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

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