H1245–בָּקַשׁ–ba.qash

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

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

-- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.

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

I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

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

Whither hath thy beloved gone, O fair among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned, And we seek him with thee?

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

When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?

בִקֵּ֥שׁ vi.Kesh “did he require”

He who is poor `by' heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.

יְבַקֶּשׁ־ ye.va.kesh- “he seeks”

Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.

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

The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.

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

Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

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

Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.

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

I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.

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

A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.

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

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (בַקֵּ֣שׁ) va.Kesh “seek”

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself `with' ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

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

Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

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

Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, who are seeking thy life, saying: Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, And thou dost not die by our hands.

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

And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

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

And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

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

And after this -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I give Zedekiah king of Judah, And his servants, and the people, And those 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 seeking their life, And he hath smitten them by the mouth of the sword, He hath no pity on them, Nor doth he spare, nor hath he mercy.

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

And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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

And the king Jehoiakim, and all his mighty ones, and all the heads, hear his words, and the king seeketh to put him to death, and Urijah heareth, and feareth, and fleeth, and goeth in to Egypt.

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

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

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

yea, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcase hath been for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.

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

`And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his heads, I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and into the hand of the forces of the king of Babylon, that are going up from off you.

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

And the king Zedekiah sweareth unto Jeremiah in secret, saying, `Jehovah liveth, He who made for us this soul, I do not put thee to death, nor give thee unto the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul.'

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