# בָּקַשׁ (baqash)

Israeli respelling: ba-qash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1245. 215 Old Testament occurrences.

to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after

King James renderings: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/baqash-h1245

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 31:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/39) — That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or s…
- [Genesis 37:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/15) — And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
- [Genesis 37:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/16) — And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
- [Genesis 43:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/9) — I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the bl…
- [Genesis 43:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/30) — And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept th…
- [Exodus 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/15) — Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and h…
- [Exodus 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/19) — And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
- [Exodus 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/24) — And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
- [Exodus 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/10/11) — Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
- [Exodus 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/7) — And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. A…
- [Leviticus 19:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/31) — Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
- [Numbers 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/10) — And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
- [Numbers 35:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/23) — Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his ha…
- [Deuteronomy 4:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/29) — But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- [Deuteronomy 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/10) — And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out…
- [Joshua 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/22) — And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throu…
- [Joshua 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/23) — That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peac…
- [Judges 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/22) — And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. A…
- [Judges 6:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/29) — And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this…
- [Judges 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/14/4) — But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Ph…
- [Judges 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/18/1) — In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that…
- [Ruth 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/3/1) — Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
- [1 Samuel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/9/3) — And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek th…
- [1 Samuel 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/2) — When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they wil…
- [1 Samuel 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/14) — And Saul’s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where…
- [1 Samuel 10:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/21) — When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken:…
- [1 Samuel 13:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/14) — But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain o…
- [1 Samuel 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/4) — And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a…
- [1 Samuel 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/16) — Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to p…
- [1 Samuel 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/2) — But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pra…
- [1 Samuel 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/10) — And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into…
- [1 Samuel 20:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/1) — And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before…
- [1 Samuel 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/16) — So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.
- [1 Samuel 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/22/23) — Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
- [1 Samuel 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/10) — Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sak…
- [1 Samuel 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/14) — And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but…
- [1 Samuel 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/15) — And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
- [1 Samuel 23:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/25) — Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And w…
- [1 Samuel 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/2) — Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
- [1 Samuel 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/9) — And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
- [1 Samuel 25:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/26) — Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and fro…
- [1 Samuel 25:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/29) — Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God…
- [1 Samuel 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/2) — Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wildern…
- [1 Samuel 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/20) — Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when o…
- [1 Samuel 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/1) — And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily esc…
- [1 Samuel 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/4) — And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
- [1 Samuel 28:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/7) — Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants s…
- [2 Samuel 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/17) — And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
- [2 Samuel 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/8) — And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine ene…
- [2 Samuel 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/11) — How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of…
- [2 Samuel 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/5/17) — But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of…
- [2 Samuel 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/16) — David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
- [2 Samuel 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/11) — And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may t…
- [2 Samuel 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/3) — And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
- [2 Samuel 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/20) — And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be…
- [2 Samuel 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/19) — I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up…
- [2 Samuel 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/1) — Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for…
- [2 Samuel 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/2) — And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the A…
- [1 Kings 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/2) — Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let h…
- [1 Kings 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/3) — So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
- [1 Kings 2:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/40) — And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
- [1 Kings 10:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/24) — And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
- [1 Kings 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/22) — Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Noth…
- [1 Kings 11:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/40) — Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the…
- [1 Kings 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/10) — As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there;…
- [1 Kings 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/10) — And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine a…
- [1 Kings 19:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/14) — And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thi…
- [1 Kings 20:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/7) — Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent u…
- [2 Kings 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/16) — And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest perad…
- [2 Kings 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/17) — And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
- [2 Kings 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/19) — And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he l…
- [1 Chronicles 4:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/4/39) — And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
- [1 Chronicles 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/14/8) — And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of…
- [1 Chronicles 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/10) — Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
- [1 Chronicles 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/11) — Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
- [1 Chronicles 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/3) — And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s ser…
- [2 Chronicles 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/14) — If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will…
- [2 Chronicles 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/23) — And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
- [2 Chronicles 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/11/16) — And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto…
- [2 Chronicles 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/4) — But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
- [2 Chronicles 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/15) — And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of th…
- [2 Chronicles 20:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/4) — And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
- [2 Chronicles 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/9) — And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried…
- [Ezra 2:62](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/62) — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put fro…
- [Ezra 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/21) — Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, a…
- [Ezra 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/22) — For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unt…
- [Ezra 8:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/23) — So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
- [Nehemiah 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/4) — Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
- [Nehemiah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/10) — When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to se…
- [Nehemiah 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/12) — Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took a…
- [Nehemiah 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/18) — Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of al…
- [Nehemiah 7:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/64) — These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from t…
- [Nehemiah 12:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/27) — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the ded…
- [Esther 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/2) — Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
- [Esther 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/15) — Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the…
- [Esther 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/21) — In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, wer…
- [Esther 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/23) — And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of…
- [Esther 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/6) — And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all…
- [Esther 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/4/8) — Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it…
- [Esther 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/6/2) — And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sough…
- [Esther 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/7) — And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to…
- [Esther 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/2) — The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought the…
- [Job 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/6) — That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
- [Psalms 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/2) — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
- [Psalms 24:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/24/6) — This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
- [Psalms 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/4) — One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold…
- [Psalms 27:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/8) — When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
- [Psalms 34:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/14) — Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
- [Psalms 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/4) — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- [Psalms 37:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/25) — I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
- [Psalms 37:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/32) — The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
- [Psalms 37:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/36) — Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- [Psalms 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/12) — They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day l…
- [Psalms 40:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/14) — Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish m…
- [Psalms 40:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/16) — Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
- [Psalms 54:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/54/3) — For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
- [Psalms 63:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/9) — But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
- [Psalms 69:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/6) — Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God…
- [Psalms 70:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/2) — Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
- [Psalms 70:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/4) — Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
- [Psalms 71:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/13) — Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- [Psalms 71:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/24) — My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hur…
- [Psalms 83:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/16) — Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
- [Psalms 86:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/86/14) — O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
- [Psalms 104:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/21) — The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
- [Psalms 105:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/3) — Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
- [Psalms 105:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/4) — Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
- [Psalms 119:176](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/176) — I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- [Psalms 122:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/122/9) — Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
- [Proverbs 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/4) — If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
- [Proverbs 11:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/27) — He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
- [Proverbs 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/6) — A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
- [Proverbs 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/14) — The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
- [Proverbs 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/9) — He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- [Proverbs 17:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/11) — An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- [Proverbs 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/19) — He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
- [Proverbs 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/1) — Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
- [Proverbs 18:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/15) — The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
- [Proverbs 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/6) — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- [Proverbs 23:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/35) — They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet a…
- [Proverbs 28:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/5) — Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
- [Proverbs 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/10) — The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
- [Proverbs 29:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/26) — Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the LORD.
- [Ecclesiastes 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/6) — A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
- [Ecclesiastes 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/3/15) — That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/25) — I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/28) — Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/29) — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/8/17) — Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it o…
- [Ecclesiastes 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/10) — The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
- [Song of Solomon 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/1) — By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
- [Song of Solomon 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/2) — I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found…
- [Song of Solomon 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/6) — I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not fin…
- [Song of Solomon 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/6/1) — Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
- [Isaiah 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/12) — When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
- [Isaiah 40:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/20) — He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a g…
- [Isaiah 41:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/12) — Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a…
- [Isaiah 41:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/17) — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel…
- [Isaiah 45:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/19) — I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteou…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/1) — Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit…
- [Isaiah 65:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/1) — I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not…
- [Jeremiah 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 her…
- [Jeremiah 2:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/33) — Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- [Jeremiah 4:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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, t…
- [Jeremiah 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/1) — Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if t…
- [Jeremiah 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/21) — Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not b…
- [Jeremiah 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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…
- [Jeremiah 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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…
- [Jeremiah 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 f…
- [Jeremiah 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/25) — And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Neb…
- [Jeremiah 26:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/21) — And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when U…
- [Jeremiah 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/13) — And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
- [Jeremiah 34:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/20) — I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for me…
- [Jeremiah 34:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 their life, and…
- [Jeremiah 38:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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, neithe…
- [Jeremiah 44:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 his…
- [Jeremiah 45:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/45/5) — And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will…
- [Jeremiah 46:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/26) — And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the han…
- [Jeremiah 49:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/37) — For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my f…
- [Jeremiah 50:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 weep…
- [Jeremiah 50:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/20) — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah…
- [Lamentations 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/11) — All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I…
- [Lamentations 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/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 their meat to rel…
- [Ezekiel 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/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…
- [Ezekiel 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/20) — Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: be…
- [Ezekiel 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/25) — Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
- [Ezekiel 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/26) — Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish…
- [Ezekiel 22:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/30) — And I sought 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…
- [Ezekiel 26:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/21) — I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/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 sh…
- [Ezekiel 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/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…
- [Ezekiel 34:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/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…
- [Ezekiel 34:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/16) — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen th…
- [Daniel 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/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: th…
- [Daniel 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/20) — And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and a…
- [Daniel 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/15) — And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the app…
- [Daniel 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/3) — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- [Hosea 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/7) — And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she sa…
- [Hosea 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/3/5) — Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness…
- [Hosea 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/6) — They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
- [Hosea 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/15) — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
- [Hosea 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/10) — And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
- [Amos 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/12) — And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and sha…
- [Nahum 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/7) — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whe…
- [Nahum 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/11) — Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- [Zephaniah 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/6) — And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
- [Zephaniah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/3) — Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid i…
- [Zechariah 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/6/7) — And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro thr…
- [Zechariah 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/21) — And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I w…
- [Zechariah 8:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/22) — Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
- [Zechariah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/16) — For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal th…
- [Zechariah 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/9) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
- [Malachi 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/7) — For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
- [Malachi 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/15) — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to y…
- [Malachi 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/1) — Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, ev…