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Lexicon :: Strong's H1245 - bāqaš

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בָּקַשׁ
Transliteration
bāqaš
Pronunciation
baw-kash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 276

Strong’s Definitions

בָּקַשׁ bâqash, baw-kash'; a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x

The KJV translates Strong's H1245 in the following manner: seek (189x), require (14x), request (4x), seek out (4x), enquired (3x), besought (2x), ask (2x), sought for (2x), begging (1x), desire (1x), get (1x), inquisition (1x), procureth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 225x
The KJV translates Strong's H1245 in the following manner: seek (189x), require (14x), request (4x), seek out (4x), enquired (3x), besought (2x), ask (2x), sought for (2x), begging (1x), desire (1x), get (1x), inquisition (1x), procureth (1x).
  1. to seek, require, desire, exact, request

    1. (Piel)

      1. to seek to find

      2. to seek to secure

      3. to seek the face

      4. to desire, demand

      5. to require, exact

      6. to ask, request

    2. (Pual) to be sought

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּקַשׁ bâqash, baw-kash'; a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
STRONGS H1245: Abbreviations
† [בָּקַשׁ]224 verb seek (Phoenician בקש) —
Pi. Perfect בִּקֵּשׁ Deuteronomy 13:11 + 15 times; בִּקְשָׁה Ecclesiastes 7:28; Esther 2:15; suffix בִּקְשָׁתַם Hosea 2:9; בִּקַּשְׁתִּיו Songs 3:1, 2; compare Songs 5:6; בִּקְשׁוּ Ezra 2:62 + 12 times; suffix בִּקְשֻׁנִי Isaiah 65:1 + 2 times; Imperfect יְבַקֵשׁ Joshua 22:23 + 37 times; יְבַקֶּש־ Proverbs 15:14 + 2 times; אֲבַקְשָׁה Psalm 122:9 + 3 times; suffix יְבַקְשֵׁהוּ 1 Samuel 23:14 + 7 times; יְבַקְשׁוּ 1 Samuel 16:16 + 23 times; Imperative בַקֵּשׁ 1 Samuel 9:3 + 3 times; בַּקְּשׁוּ 1 Samuel 28:7 + 8 times; Infinitive לְבַקֵּשׁ 1 Samuel 10:2 + 29 times; Participle מְבַקֵּשׁ Genesis 37:16 + 23 times; plural מְבַקְשִׁים Exodus 10:11 + 38 times; —
1. seek to find:
c. with לְ Job 10:6.
2. seek to secure:
b. aim at, practise: בקשׁ רעה seek hurt of Numbers 35:23 (P) 1 Samuel 24:10; 1 Samuel 25:26 (אֶל) 1 Kings 20:7; Psalm 71:13; Psalm 71:24; Esther 9:2; כזב ב׳ Psalm 4:3 compare Proverbs 17:11, שׁבר Proverbs 17:19, רצון Proverbs 11:27, טובה Nehemiah 2:10, אמונה Jeremiah 5:1, צדק, ענוה Zephaniah 2:3 (twice in verse) שׁלום Psalm 34:15, חכמה Proverbs 14:6; Ecclesiastes 7:25, בינה Daniel 8:15, דעת Proverbs 15:14; Proverbs 18:15, תורה Malachi 2:7, אהבה Proverbs 17:9, תאוה Proverbs 18:1 (ל of direct object), חשׁבנות Ecclesiastes 7:29.
c. Infinitive Exodus 4:24 (J) Jeremiah 26:21.
3. seek the face
b. of God (from resorting to sacred places) Hosea 5:15; 1 Chronicles 16:11 (= Psalm 105:4) 2 Chronicles 7:14; 2 Samuel 21:1; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 27:8 (twice in verse); without פּֽנֵי.
d. followed by Infinitive with לְ, of resort to wizards, but object not expressed Leviticus 19:34 (H).
4. desire, demand:
a. accusative 1 Chronicles 21:3.
b. accusative of thing מִן person Ezekiel 7:26; Daniel 1:20.
5.
a. require, exact, accusative of thing מִיַּד person Isaiah 1:12; מִן person Nehemiah 5:12, accusative of thing Nehemiah 5:18.
b. exact equivalent or penalty for, accusative of thing, מִיַּד person Genesis 31:39; Genesis 43:9 (JE) 1 Samuel 20:16; 2 Samuel 4:11; Ezekiel 3:18, 20; Ezekiel 33:8, compare דרשׁ; no object expressed Joshua 22:23 (P).
6. (late) ask, request, accusative of thing Esther 2:15; עַל of thing Nehemiah 2:4; עַל of thing מִן person Esther 7:7; Ezra 8:23; עַל of thing מִלִּפְנֵי person Esther 4:8; accusative of thing מִן person Daniel 1:8 (object clause with אשׁר), Psalm 104:21; מִן person 2 Chronicles 20:4.
Pu. Imperfect יְבֻקַּשׁ Jeremiah 50:20, וַיְב׳ Esther 2:23; תֲּבֻקְשִׁי Ezekiel 26:21 be sought.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:39; 37:15; 37:16; 37:16; 43:9; 43:30

Exodus

2:15; 4:19; 4:24; 10:11; 10:11; 33:7

Leviticus

19:34

Numbers

16:10; 35:23

Deuteronomy

4:29; 13:11; 13:11

Joshua

2:22; 22:23; 22:23

Judges

4:22; 6:29; 14:4; 18:1

Ruth

3:1

1 Samuel

9:3; 9:3; 10:2; 10:2; 10:14; 10:21; 13:14; 14:4; 16:16; 16:16; 19:2; 19:10; 20:1; 20:16; 22:23; 23:10; 23:14; 23:14; 23:15; 23:25; 24:3; 24:10; 25:26; 25:29; 26:2; 26:20; 27:1; 27:4; 28:7; 28:7

2 Samuel

3:17; 4:8; 4:11; 5:17; 12:16; 16:11; 17:3; 17:20; 20:19; 21:1; 21:2

1 Kings

1:2; 1:3; 2:40; 10:24; 11:22; 11:40; 18:10; 19:10; 19:14; 20:7

2 Kings

2:16; 2:17; 6:19

1 Chronicles

4:39; 14:8; 16:10; 16:11; 21:3

2 Chronicles

7:14; 9:23; 11:16; 15:4; 15:15; 20:4; 20:4; 22:9

Ezra

2:62; 2:62; 8:23

Nehemiah

2:4; 2:10; 5:12; 5:18; 7:64; 12:27

Esther

2:2; 2:15; 2:15; 2:21; 2:23; 3:6; 4:8; 6:2; 7:7; 9:2

Job

10:6

Psalms

4:3; 24:6; 27:4; 27:8; 34:15; 35:4; 37:22; 37:25; 37:36; 38:13; 40:15; 40:17; 54:5; 63:10; 69:7; 70:3; 70:5; 71:13; 71:24; 83:17; 86:14; 104:21; 105:3; 105:4; 119:176; 122:9; 122:9

Proverbs

2:4; 11:27; 14:6; 15:14; 15:14; 17:9; 17:11; 17:19; 18:1; 18:15; 21:6; 23:35; 28:5; 29:10; 29:26

Ecclesiastes

3:6; 7:25; 7:28; 7:29; 8:17; 12:10

Song of Songs

3:1; 3:1; 3:2; 3:2; 5:6; 5:6; 6:1

Isaiah

1:12; 40:20; 41:12; 41:17; 45:19; 51:1; 65:1; 65:1

Jeremiah

2:24; 2:33; 4:30; 5:1; 5:1; 11:21; 19:7; 19:9; 21:7; 22:25; 26:21; 29:13; 34:20; 34:21; 38:16; 44:30; 45:5; 45:5; 46:26; 49:37; 50:4; 50:20

Lamentations

1:11; 1:19

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:20; 7:25; 7:26; 22:30; 26:21; 33:8; 34:4; 34:6; 34:16

Daniel

1:8; 1:20; 8:15; 9:3

Hosea

2:9; 2:9; 3:5; 3:5; 5:6; 5:15; 7:10

Amos

8:12

Nahum

3:7; 3:11

Zephaniah

1:6; 2:3; 2:3

Zechariah

6:7; 8:21; 8:22; 11:16; 12:9

Malachi

2:7; 2:15; 3:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1245 matches the Hebrew בָּקַשׁ (bāqaš),
which occurs 225 times in 215 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 5 (Sng 3:1–Hos 5:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - By night on my bed I sought H1245 him whom my soul loveth: I sought H1245 him, but I found him not.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:2 - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek H1245 him whom my soul loveth: I sought H1245 him, but I found him not.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:6 - I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought H1245 him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1 - Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek H1245 him with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:12 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required H1245 this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 - He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh H1245 unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - Thou shalt seek H1245 them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - When the poor and needy seek H1245 water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek H1245 ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1 - Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek H1245 the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 - I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought H1245 me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:24 - A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek H1245 her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:33 - Why trimmest thou thy way to seek H1245 love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek H1245 thy life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:1 - Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek H1245 in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh H1245 the truth; and I will pardon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek H1245 thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 hands of them that seek H1245 their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek H1245 their lives, shall straiten them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and 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 H1245 their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:25 - And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek H1245 thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought H1245 to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:13 - And ye shall seek H1245 me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek H1245 their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 H1245 their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:16 - So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD 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 H1245 thy life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:30 - Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek H1245 his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought H1245 his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:5 - And seekest H1245 thou great things for thyself? seek H1245 them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26 - And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek H1245 their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:37 - For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek H1245 their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:4 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek H1245 the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, H1245 and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 - All her people sigh, they seek H1245 bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought H1245 their meat to relieve their souls.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require H1245 at thine hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require H1245 at thine hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:25 - Destruction cometh; and they shall seek H1245 peace, and there shall be none.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26 - Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek H1245 a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:30 - And I sought H1245 for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:21 - I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, H1245 yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require H1245 at thine hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought H1245 that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:6 - My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek H1245 after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:16 - I will seek H1245 that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested H1245 of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:20 - And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired H1245 of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:15 - And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought H1245 for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek H1245 by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:7 - And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek H1245 them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:5 - Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek H1245 the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 - They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek H1245 the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

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