Seeking
בַּקָּרָהStrong’s H1243baqqarah (baq-qa-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Baqqarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like seeking of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”
Meaning
- A seeking, a care, concern
How it's translated
- like seeking of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בַּקָּרָה baqqarah · seeking
a seeking, a care, concern
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seek” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEEK, verb transitive
pret and participle passive sought, pronounced sawt. [L. sequor, to follow; for to seek is to go after, and the primary sense is to advance, to press, to drive forward, as in the L. peto.]
- To go in searh or quest of; to look for; to search for by going from place to place.
- To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to endeavor to find or gain by any means.“The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God” Psalms 104:21“He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears” Hebrews 12:17“Others tempting him, sought of him a sign” Luke 11:16
- Seek is followed sometimes by out or after.
- To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.“Seek ye out of the book of the Lord” Isaiah 34:16
All definitions
- To endeavor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.