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TWOT Reference: 276
to seek, require, desire, exact, request
(Piel)
to seek to find
to seek to secure
to seek the face
to desire, demand
to require, exact
to ask, request
(Pual) to be sought
Strong's Number H1245 matches the Hebrew בָּקַשׁ (bāqaš),
which occurs 225 times in 215 verses
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 3 / 5 (Est 7:7–Ecc 12:10)
The king arose in anger and went from where they were drinking wine to the palace garden.[fn] Haman remained to beg Queen Esther for his life because he realized the king was planning something terrible for him.
In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.[fn] Not a single person could withstand them; fear of them fell on every nationality.
How long, exalted ones,[fn] will my honor be insulted?
How long will you love what is worthless
and pursue a lie?Selah
Such is the generation of those who inquire of him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.[fn]Selah
I have asked one thing from the LORD;
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the LORD
and seeking him in his temple.
Let those who intend to take my life
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.
I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.
Then I[fn] passed by and noticed he was gone;
I searched for him, but he could not be found.
Those who intend to kill me set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
Let those who intend to take my life
be disgraced and confounded.
Let those who wish me harm
be turned back and humiliated.
Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you;
let those who love your salvation continually say,
“The LORD is great! ”
For strangers rise up against me,
and violent men intend to kill me.
They do not let God guide them.[fn]Selah
Do not let those who put their hope in you
be disgraced because of me,
Lord GOD of Armies;
do not let those who seek you
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.
Let those who seek to kill me
be disgraced and confounded;
let those who wish me harm
be turned back and humiliated.
Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you;
let those who love your salvation
continually say, “God is great! ”
May my adversaries be disgraced and destroyed;
may those who intend to harm me
be covered with disgrace and humiliation.
Therefore, my tongue will proclaim
your righteousness all day long,
for those who intend to harm me
will be disgraced and confounded.
God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me.
They do not let you guide them.[fn]
The one who searches for what is good seeks favor,
but if someone looks for trouble, it will come to him.
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it,
but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love,
but whoever gossips about it separates friends.
An evil person desires only rebellion;
a cruel messenger[fn] will be sent against him.
One who loves to offend loves strife;
one who builds a high threshold invites injury.
“They struck me, but[fn] I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”
The evil do not understand justice,
but those who seek the LORD understand everything.
Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. However, God seeks justice for the persecuted.[fn]
I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.
“which my soul continually searches for but does not find: I found one person in a thousand, but none of those was a woman.
“Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”
I observed all the work of God and concluded that a person is unable to discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though a person labors hard to explore it, he cannot find it; even if a wise person claims to know it, he is unable to discover it.
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