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חֵ֫קֶרStrong’s H2714cheqer (che-qer)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheqer is the Hebrew word usually translated “inquiry”, “searchings of” and “searching of”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.”
Meaning
- A search, investigation, searching, enquiry, thing to be searched out
How it's translated
- inquiry 7
- searchings of 1
- to searching of 1
- searching of 1
- and in depth of 1
- and search of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Proverbs 2
- Judges 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 5:9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Job 8:8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Job 9:10Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 34:24He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
- Job 36:26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Hebrew dictionary
חֵ֫קֶר cheqer · search
a search, investigation, searching, enquiry, thing to be searched out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “search” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEARCH, verb transitive
serch
- To look over or through for the purpose of finding something; to explore; to examine by inspection; as, to search the house for a book; to search the wood for a thief.“Send though men, that they may search the land of Canaan” Numbers 13:2
- To inquire; to seek for.
- To probe; to seek the knowledge of by feeling with instrument; as to search a wound.
- To examine; to try. Psalms 139:23
All definitions and other forms of “search”
SEARCH, verb intransitive
serch.
- To seek; to look for; to make search
- To make inquiry; to inquire.
SEARCH, noun
serch.
- A seeking or looking for something that is lost, or the place of which us unknown; with for or after; as a search for lost money; a search for mines of gold and silver; a search after happiness or knowledge.
- Inquiry; a seeking.
- Quest; pursuit for finding.
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.