בָּקַשׁ
ba.qash
1. to seek, require, desire, exact, request
a. (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
b. (Pual) to be sought
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 215 verses
- Song of Solomon 3:1 בִּקַּ֕שְׁתִּיבִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:2 אֲבַקְשָׁ֕הבִּקַּשְׁתִּ֖יו
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 5:6 בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֙יהוּ֙
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
- Song of Solomon 6:1 וּנְבַקְשֶׁ֖נּוּ
Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.
- Isaiah 1:12 בִקֵּ֥שׁ
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?
- Isaiah 40:20 יְבַקֶּשׁ־
To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
- Isaiah 41:12 תְּבַקְשֵׁם֙
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
- Isaiah 41:17 מְבַקְשִׁ֥ים
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 45:19 בַקְּשׁ֑וּנִי
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
- Isaiah 51:1 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
- Isaiah 65:1 בִקְשֻׁ֑נִי
“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
- Jeremiah 2:24 מְבַקְשֶׁ֙יהָ֙
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- Jeremiah 2:33 לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
- Jeremiah 4:30 יְבַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- Jeremiah 5:1 וּבַקְשׁ֣וּמְבַקֵּ֣שׁ
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
- Jeremiah 11:21 הַֽמְבַקְשִׁ֥ים
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
- Jeremiah 19:7 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 19:9 וּמְבַקְשֵׁ֥י
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Jeremiah 21:7 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
- Jeremiah 22:25 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 26:21 וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ
King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.
- Jeremiah 29:13 וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
- Jeremiah 34:20 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 34:21 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
- Jeremiah 38:16 מְבַקְשִׁ֖ים
But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
- Jeremiah 44:30 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣יוּמְבַקֵּ֥שׁ
This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
- Jeremiah 45:5 תְּבַקֶּשׁ־תְּבַקֵּ֑שׁ
But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
- Jeremiah 46:26 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:37 מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י
So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
- Jeremiah 50:4 יְבַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃
“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
- Jeremiah 50:20 יְבֻקַּ֞שׁ
In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
- Lamentations 1:11 מְבַקְּשִׁ֣ים
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
- Lamentations 1:19 בִקְשׁ֥וּ
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Ezekiel 3:18 אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- Ezekiel 3:20 אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- Ezekiel 7:25 וּבִקְשׁ֥וּ
Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
- Ezekiel 7:26 וּבִקְשׁ֤וּ
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- Ezekiel 22:30 וָאֲבַקֵּ֣שׁ
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.
- Ezekiel 26:21 וּֽתְבֻקְשִׁ֗י
I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 33:8 אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
- Ezekiel 34:4 בִקַּשְׁתֶּ֑ם
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Ezekiel 34:6 מְבַקֵּֽשׁ׃
My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- Ezekiel 34:16 אֲבַקֵּשׁ֙
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Daniel 1:8 וַיְבַקֵּשׁ֙
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- Daniel 1:20 בִּקֵּ֥שׁ
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
- Daniel 8:15 וָאֲבַקְשָׁ֣ה
While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
- Daniel 9:3 לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Hosea 2:7 וּבִקְשָׁ֖תַם
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
- Hosea 3:5 וּבִקְשׁוּ֙
Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- Hosea 5:6 לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ
They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.