בָּקַשׁ
bâqash · baw-kash'
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
- to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer)
- by implication, to strive after
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to consume, to destroy
The house, what is within of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּקַשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
225 occurrences · 225 OT · 0 NT · 146 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to seek20 · 16%
- seek14 · 11%
- sought13 · 11%
- seeketh11 · 9%
- that seek10 · 8%
- and seek7 · 6%
- and sought5 · 4%
- of them that seek5 · 4%
- i sought4 · 3%
- i will seek4 · 3%
- and he sought3 · 2%
- will i require3 · 2%
- and they that seek2 · 2%
- whom thou seekest2 · 2%
- let all those that seek2 · 2%
- them that seek2 · 2%
- enquired2 · 2%
- these sought2 · 2%
- whom ye seek2 · 2%
- and they seek2 · 2%
- which sought2 · 2%
- of those that seek2 · 2%
- i seek1 · 1%
- what seekest1 · 1%
- didst thou require1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.