Hebrew

To seek

דָּרַשׁStrong’s H1875

darash (da-rash)

Appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Darash is the Hebrew word usually translated “consult”, “seek” and “sought”. It appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament.

“And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.”

Genesis 9:5 KJV

Meaning

To resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require(Qal) · (Niphal)

How it's translated

to consult 15
to seek 14
seek 10
he sought 5
i will seek 4
seeks 4
consult 4
and seek 4

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 28
Psalms 24
Deuteronomy 13
Isaiah 13
Ezekiel 13
1 Chronicles 10

25 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 152 verses, by book

Genesis 3: 9:5 25:22 42:22
Exodus 1: 18:15
Leviticus 1: 10:16
Deuteronomy 13: 4:29 11:12 12:5 12:30 13:14 17:4 17:9 18:11 18:19 19:18 22:2 23:6 23:21
Judges 1: 6:29
1 Samuel 2: 9:9 28:7
2 Samuel 1: 11:3
1 Kings 4: 14:5 22:5 22:7 22:8
2 Kings 8: 1:2 1:3 1:6 1:16 3:11 8:8 22:13 22:18
1 Chronicles 10: 10:13 10:14 13:3 15:13 16:11 21:30 22:19 26:31 28:8 28:9
2 Chronicles 28: 1:5 12:14 14:4 14:7 15:2 15:12 15:13 16:12 17:3 17:4 18:4 18:6 18:7 19:3 20:3 22:9 24:6 24:22 25:15 25:20 26:5 30:19 31:9 31:21 32:31 34:3 34:21 34:26
Ezra 5: 4:2 6:21 7:10 9:12 10:16
Esther 1: 10:3
Job 4: 3:4 5:8 10:6 39:8
Psalms 24: 9:10 9:12 10:4 10:13 10:15 14:2 22:26 24:6 34:4 34:10 38:12 53:2 69:32 77:2 78:34 105:4 109:10 111:2 119:2 119:10 119:45 119:94 119:155 142:4
Proverbs 2: 11:27 31:13
Ecclesiastes 1: 1:13
Isaiah 13: 1:17 8:19 9:13 11:10 16:5 19:3 31:1 34:16 55:6 58:2 62:12 65:1 65:10
Jeremiah 9: 8:2 10:21 21:2 29:7 29:13 30:14 30:17 37:7 38:4
Lamentations 1: 3:25
Ezekiel 13: 14:3 14:7 14:10 20:1 20:3 20:31 20:40 33:6 34:6 34:8 34:10 34:11 36:37
Hosea 1: 10:12
Amos 4: 5:4 5:5 5:6 5:14
Micah 1: 6:8
Zephaniah 1: 1:6

Hebrew dictionary

דָּרַשׁ darash · to seek

1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place) 1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek 1a2a) of God 1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers 1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship 1a3a) God 1a3b) heathen deities 1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require 1a5) to investigate, enquire 1a6) to ask for, require, demand 1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application 1a8) to seek with care, care for 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God) 1b2) to be sought, be sought out …

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.