Request
בַּקָּשָׁהStrong’s H1246baqqashah (baq-qa-shah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baqqashah is the Hebrew word usually translated “request your”, “request his” and “request my”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.”
Meaning
- Request, entreaty, petition
How it's translated
- request your 4
- request his 1
- and request my 1
- request my 1
- for request my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 7
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 5:3Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.
- Esther 5:6And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
- Esther 5:7Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
- Esther 5:8If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
- Esther 7:2And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
- Esther 7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Hebrew dictionary
בַּקָּשָׁה baqqashah · request
request, entreaty, petition
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “request” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REQUEST', verb transitive
- To ask; to solicit; to express desire for.“The weight of the golden ear-rings which he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold” Judges 8:26
- To express desire to; to ask.
- A court of conscience for the recovery of small debts, held by two aldermen and four commoners, who try causes by the oath of parties and of other witnesses.
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.