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Lexicon :: Strong's H1875 - dāraš

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דָּרַשׁ
Transliteration
dāraš
Pronunciation
daw-rash'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 455

Strong’s Definitions

דָּרַשׁ dârash, daw-rash'; a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship:—ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), × surely.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x

The KJV translates Strong's H1875 in the following manner: seek (84x), enquire (43x), require (12x), search (7x), miscellaneous (18x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x
The KJV translates Strong's H1875 in the following manner: seek (84x), enquire (43x), require (12x), search (7x), miscellaneous (18x).
  1. to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require

    1. (Qal)

      1. to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)

      2. to consult, enquire of, seek

        1. of God

        2. of heathen gods, necromancers

      3. to seek deity in prayer and worship

        1. God

        2. heathen deities

      4. to seek (with a demand), demand, require

      5. to investigate, enquire

      6. to ask for, require, demand

      7. to practice, study, follow, seek with application

      8. to seek with care, care for

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)

      2. to be sought, be sought out

      3. to be required (of blood)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דָּרַשׁ dârash, daw-rash'; a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship:—ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), × surely.
STRONGS H1875: Abbreviations
דָּרַשׁ 162 verb resort to, seek (compare Arabic دَرَسَ rub over, efface (a site), tread (wheat), figurative read repeatedly, study; WfRD beat (a path), discuss, Pa. practise in; Late Hebrew search out (a meaning), expound) —
Qal Perfect 1 Chronicles 10:14; Imperfect יִדְרשׁ Psalm 10:4 +, אֶדְרְשָׁה 1 Samuel 28:7, נִדְרְשָׁה 1 Kings 22:7 +, יִדְרְשׁוּן Isaiah 55:2; Imperative דְּרָשֿׁ 1 Kings 22:5 +; Infinitive absolute דָּרשׁ Leviticus 10:16; Deuteronomy 23:22; construct דְּרשׁ Deuteronomy 22:2 + לִדְרָשֿׁ Ezekiel 14:7, לְדַרְיוֺשׁ (scribal error for לִדְרוֺשׁ Ew§ 239 a Ol§ 245 g) Ezra 10:16; Participle דֹּרֵשׁ Deuteronomy 11:12 + 10 times, דּוֺרֵשׁ 1 Chronicles 28:9 + 3 times; passive דְּרוּשִׁים Psalm 111:2, דְּרוּשָׁה Isaiah 62:12; synonym בקשׁ; —
1. (tread a place,) resort to, frequent, with religious object, with accusative of location Amos 5:5; 2 Chronicles 1:5, לְ local Deuteronomy 12:5.
2. seek, consult, inquire of:
a. accusative י׳, אֱלֹהִים Genesis 25:22 (J) Exodus 18:15 (E) 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 3:11; 2 Kings 8:8; 2 Kings 22:13, 18; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Chronicles 21:30; 2 Chronicles 18:7; 34:21; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 78:34; Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:7; Ezekiel 20:1, 3; the ark of God 1 Chronicles 13:3; word of Yahweh 1 Kings 22:5 (= 2 Chronicles 18:4) compare 1 Kings 14:5; with בְּ Yahweh 1 Chronicles 10:14; 2 Chronicles 34:26; Ezekiel 14:7; his word 2 Kings 1:16; with אֶל, אֶלאֵֿל Job 5:8; their God Isaiah 8:19, Messianic king Isaiah 11:10; מֵעַלסֵֿפֶר י׳ out of the book of י׳ Isaiah 34:16 (in gloss, according to CheJQ Jan. 1892, 332); with מֵאוֺתוֺ of a נָבִיא לי׳ 1 Kings 22:7 (= 2 Chronicles 18:6) compare (above) 2 Chronicles 18:8; 2 Kings 3:11 and 1 Kings 14:5 (מֵעִמְּךָ).
b. heathen gods and necromancers, הַדֹּרֵשׁ the inquirer Ezekiel 14:10; with בְּ, בַּעֲלַת אוֺב 1 Samuel 28:7, בָּאוֺב 1 Chronicles 10:13, בְּבַעַל זְבוּב 2 Kings 1:2, 3, 6, 16; with אֶל, אֶלהָֿאֹבוֺת Isaiah 8:19, אֶלהַֿמֵּתִים Deuteronomy 18:11, אֶלהָֿאֱלִילִים Isaiah 19:3.
3. seek deity in prayer and worship:
b. seek heathen deities, with accusative Jeremiah 8:2; 2 Chronicles 25:15, 20; with לְ, Deuteronomy 12:30; 2 Chronicles 17:3.
4.
a. seek, with idea of demanding, require (בקשׁ is seek, simply), with accusative lost sheep Deuteronomy 22:2; Ezekiel 34:6, 8, 11; goat Leviticus 10:16 (twice in verse) (P); with אחר, after green fodder Job 39:8.
b. inquire, investigate (a matter), absolute Judges 6:29; Deuteronomy 13:15; Deuteronomy 17:4, 9; Deuteronomy 19:18; with accusative כָּללְֿבָבוֺת דּוֺרֵשׁ י׳ all hearts Yahweh searches 1 Chronicles 28:9; לִדְרשׁ הַמּוֺפֵת to inquire into the wonder 2 Chronicles 32:31; with לְ, to inquire about 2 Samuel 11:3; Job 10:6; followed by עַל person + infinitive 2 Chronicles 24:6 apply to the Levites to bring, etc., compare 2 Chronicles 31:9 (עַל both person and thing).
5. ask for, require, demand, with accusative of thing Ezekiel 20:40; + מִן person Deuteronomy 23:22; Micah 6:8; exact, often with collateral idea of avenging, מֵעִם Deuteronomy 18:19, so with מִיַּד Ezekiel 34:10, דָּרַשׁ דָּם מִיַּד Genesis 9:5 (P) Ezekiel 33:6; accusative only, דֹּרֵשׁ דמים Psalm 9:13, רִשְׁעוֺ ד׳ Psalm 10:15; absolute Psalm 10:4; Psalm 10:13; 2 Chronicles 24:22.
6. seek with application, study, follow, practise, absolute by wisdom Ecclesiastes 1:13; with accusative מִשְׁפָּט ד׳ study or practise justice Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 16:5; מַעֲשֵׂי י׳ Psalm 111:2; טוֺב וְאַלרַֿע Amos 5:14; commands of God Psalm 119:45; Psalm 119:94; Psalm 119:155; 1 Chronicles 28:8; the law Ear 1 Chronicles 7:10; שׁלום ד׳ seek or study the peace, welfare of any one Deuteronomy 23:7; Jeremiah 29:7; Ezra 9:12, לשׁלום Jeremiah 38:4, טוב ד׳ Esther 10:3, רעה ד׳ Proverbs 11:27; Psalm 38:13 (compare בקשׁ 2, where this use is more common).
7. seek with care, care for, ארץ אשׁר יהוה אלהיך דֹּרֵשׁ אתהּ land which Yahweh thy God careth for Deuteronomy 11:12; אַליִֿדְרְשֵׁהוּ אֱלוֺהַּ let not Eloah care for it Job 3:4; אוֺתָךְ לֹא יִד׳ Jeremiah 30:14; דָּֽרְשָׁה צֶמֶר Proverbs 31:13; with לְ Jeremiah 30:17; אֵין דּוֺרֵשׁ לְנַפְשִׁי no one careth for me Psalm 142:5; but in both these לְ perhaps belongs to אֵין, compare || אֵין לִי מַכִּיר Psalm 142:5, also Lamentations 4:4 etc.; דְּרוּשָׁה cared for (of Jerusalem) Isaiah 62:12.
Niph. Perfect נִדְרָ֑שׁ Genesis 42:22, נִדְרַשְׁתִּי Isaiah 65:1, נִדְרָ֑שׁוּ 1 Chronicles 26:31; Imperfect אִדָּרֵשׁ Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 20:3, 31, 31; Ezekiel 36:37; Infinitive absolute הַאִדָּרשׁ Ezekiel 14:3 (for ההדרשׁ); —
1. let oneself be inquired of, consulted, only of God Ezekiel 14:3 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 20:3, 31, 31; Ezekiel 36:37; Isaiah 65:1.
2. be sought out 1 Chronicles 26:31.
3. be required, of blood (compare Qal 5) Genesis 42:22 (E).
Note.וְדָרְשׁוּ מֵחָרְבוֺתֵיהֶם and beg out of their desolate places Psalm 109:10 (Ki and others wedŏršu, see Baer); many MSS. read דָּֽרְשׁוּ, so most interpretations; Greek Version of the LXX Hup Bi Che read גֹּרְשׁוּ be driven from.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:5; 25:22; 42:22; 42:22

Exodus

18:15

Leviticus

10:16; 10:16

Deuteronomy

4:29; 11:12; 11:12; 12:5; 12:30; 13:15; 17:4; 17:9; 18:11; 18:19; 19:18; 22:2; 22:2; 23:7; 23:22; 23:22

Judges

6:29

1 Samuel

9:9; 28:7; 28:7

2 Samuel

11:3

1 Kings

14:5; 14:5; 22:5; 22:5; 22:7; 22:7; 22:8

2 Kings

1:2; 1:3; 1:6; 1:16; 1:16; 3:11; 3:11; 8:8; 22:13; 22:18

1 Chronicles

7:10; 10:13; 10:14; 10:14; 13:3; 15:13; 16:11; 21:30; 22:19; 26:31; 26:31; 28:8; 28:9; 28:9

2 Chronicles

1:5; 12:14; 14:3; 14:6; 15:2; 15:12; 15:13; 16:12; 17:3; 17:4; 18:4; 18:6; 18:7; 18:8; 19:3; 20:3; 22:9; 24:6; 24:22; 25:15; 25:20; 26:5; 26:5; 30:19; 31:9; 31:21; 32:31; 34:3; 34:21; 34:26

Ezra

4:2; 6:21; 9:12; 10:16

Esther

10:3

Job

3:4; 5:8; 10:6; 39:8

Psalms

9:11; 9:13; 10:4; 10:4; 10:13; 10:15; 14:2; 22:27; 24:6; 28:9; 34:5; 34:11; 38:13; 53:3; 69:33; 77:3; 78:34; 105:4; 109:10; 111:2; 111:2; 119:2; 119:10; 119:45; 119:94; 119:155; 142:5; 142:5

Proverbs

11:27; 31:13

Ecclesiastes

1:13

Isaiah

1:17; 8:19; 8:19; 9:12; 11:10; 16:5; 19:3; 31:1; 34:16; 55:2; 55:6; 58:2; 62:12; 62:12; 65:1; 65:1; 65:10

Jeremiah

8:2; 10:21; 21:2; 29:7; 29:13; 30:14; 30:17; 37:7; 38:4

Lamentations

3:25; 4:4

Ezekiel

14:3; 14:3; 14:3; 14:7; 14:7; 14:10; 20:1; 20:3; 20:3; 20:3; 20:31; 20:31; 20:31; 20:31; 20:40; 33:6; 34:6; 34:8; 34:10; 34:11; 36:37; 36:37

Hosea

10:12

Amos

5:4; 5:5; 5:6; 5:14

Micah

6:8

Zephaniah

1:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1875 matches the Hebrew דָּרַשׁ (dāraš),
which occurs 165 times in 152 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (2Ch 15:13–Psa 111:2)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:13 - but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:4 - And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:6 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3 - Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:3 - Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:15 - Therefore the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:20 - But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:5 - He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:19 - who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:9 - And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:21 - And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:21 - “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:26 - But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:10 - For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:12 - Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:16 - Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[fn] heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:3 - For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - “As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:6 - that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:8 - He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
and he searches after every green thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:10 - And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:12 - For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:4 - In the pride of his face[fn] the wicked does not seek him;[fn]
all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:13 - Why does the wicked renounce God
and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:15 - Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
call his wickedness to account till you find none.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,[fn]
who seek after God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:26 - The afflicted[fn] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the LORD!
May your hearts live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:6 - Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.[fn] Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:4 - I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10 - The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:12 - Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,[fn]
who seek after God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:32 - When the humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:2 - In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul refuses to be comforted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - When he killed them, they sought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:4 - Seek the LORD and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:10 - May his children wander about and beg,
seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:2 - Great are the works of the LORD,
studied by all who delight in them.

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