דָּרַשׁ
dârash · daw-rash'
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
- properly, to tread or frequent
- usually, to follow (for pursuit or search)
- by implication, to seek or ask
- specifically, to worship
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ask, [idiom] at all, care for, [idiom] diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), [idiom] surely.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- 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 doorway, the way in › the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy
The doorway, the way in of the head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּרַשׁ 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
164 occurrences · 164 OT · 0 NT · 132 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to seek13 · 18%
- to enquire10 · 14%
- seek10 · 14%
- enquire5 · 7%
- and seek3 · 4%
- will i require3 · 4%
- that seek2 · 3%
- you to enquire2 · 3%
- require2 · 3%
- by whom we may enquire2 · 3%
- and enquired2 · 3%
- he sought2 · 3%
- and enquire2 · 3%
- i sought2 · 3%
- i will not be enquired2 · 3%
- sought out2 · 3%
- sought2 · 3%
- thee; and that thou enquire1 · 1%
- shall ye seek1 · 1%
- careth for1 · 1%
- him, if thou seek1 · 1%
- diligently1 · 1%
- unto me to enquire1 · 1%
- is required1 · 1%
- will i require it1 · 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.