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  #1245 בּקשׁ baqash {baw-kash'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 276; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to seek, require, desire, exact, request
    1a) (Piel)
        1a1) to seek to find
        1a2) to seek to secure
        1a3) to seek the face
        1a4) to desire, demand
        1a5) to require, exact
        1a6) to ask, request
    1b) (Pual) to be sought

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#1245.
בָּקַשׁ
baqash (134c); a prim. root; to seek:—
NASB - aim(1), beg(1), begging(1), concerned(1), consulted(1), demand(1), desire(1), eager(1), hold*(1), inquired(2), investigated(1), look(3), looked(1), looking(3), plead(1), pursuit(1), request(2), require(7), required(1), requires(1), search(8), search will be made(1), searched(8), searching(1), seek(94), seeking(24), seeks(16), set about(1), sought(38), tried(2).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - seek 189, require 14, request 4, seek out 4, enquired 3, besought 2,
      ask 2, sought for 2, begging 1, desire 1, get 1, inquisition 1,
      procureth 1; 225

ask
2 Chronicles 20:4.

asked
Judges 6:29.

begging
Psalms 37:25.

besought
2 Samuel 12:16. Ezra 8:23.

desire
Exodus 10:11.

enquired
2 Samuel 21:1. Daniel 1:20.

enquirest
Job 10:6.

for
Jeremiah 50:20. Ezekiel 26:21.

get
Ecclesiastes 3:6.

inquisition
Esther 2:23.

out
1 Samuel 16:16. Ecclesiastes 7:25, 29; 8:17.

procureth
Proverbs 11:27.

request
Nehemiah 2:4. Esther 4:8; 7:7.

requested
Daniel 1:8.

require
Genesis 31:39; 43:9. Joshua 22:23. 1 Samuel 20:16. 2 Samuel 4:11. 1 Chronicles 21:3. Nehemiah 5:12. Ezekiel 3:18, 20; 33:8.

required
Nehemiah 5:18. Esther 2:15. Isaiah 1:12.

requireth
Ecclesiastes 3:15.

seek
Genesis 37:16. Leviticus 19:31. Numbers 16:10. Deuteronomy 4:29. Ruth 3:1. 1 Samuel 9:3; 10:2, 14; 23:15, 25; 24:2; 25:26, 29; 26:2, 20; 27:1; 28:7. 2 Samuel 5:17. 1 Kings 2:40; 18:10; 19:10, 14. 2 Kings 2:16; 6:19. 1 Chronicles 4:39; 14:8; 16:10, 11. 2 Chronicles 7:14; 11:16; 20:4. Ezra 8:21, 22. Nehemiah 2:10. Psalms 4:2; 24:6; 27:4, 8, 8; 34:14; 35:4; 38:12; 40:14, 16; 54:3; 63:9; 69:6; 70:2, 4; 71:13, 24; 83:16; 104:21; 105:3, 4; 119:176; 122:9. Proverbs 21:6; 23:35; 28:5; 29:10, 26. Song of Songs 3:2; 6:1. Isaiah 41:12, 17; 45:19; 51:1. Jeremiah 2:24, 33; 4:30; 5:1; 11:21; 19:7, 9; 21:7; 22:25; 29:13; 34:20, 21; 38:16; 44:30; 45:5; 46:26; 49:37; 50:4. Lamentations 1:11. Ezekiel 7:25, 26; 34:6, 16. Daniel 9:3. Hosea 2:7; 3:5; 5:6, 15; 7:10. Amos 8:12. Nahum 3:7, 11. Zephaniah 2:3, 3, 3. Zechariah 8:21, 22; 11:16; 12:9. Malachi 2:7, 15; 3:1.

seekest
Genesis 37:15. Judges 4:22. 2 Samuel 17:3; 20:19. 1 Kings 11:22. Proverbs 2:4. Jeremiah 45:5.

seeketh
1 Samuel 19:2; 20:1; 22:23, 23; 23:10; 24:9. 2 Samuel 16:11. 1 Kings 20:7. Psalms 37:32. Proverbs 14:6; 15:14; 17:9, 11, 19; 18:1, 15. Ecclesiastes 7:28. Isaiah 40:20. Jeremiah 5:1.

sought
Genesis 43:30. Exodus 2:15; 4:19, 24; 33:7. Numbers 35:23. Deuteronomy 13:10. Joshua 2:22. Judges 14:4; 18:1. 1 Samuel 10:21; 13:14; 14:4; 19:10; 23:14; 27:4. 2 Samuel 3:17; 4:8; 17:20; 21:2. 1 Kings 1:2, 3; 10:24; 11:40. 2 Kings 2:17. 2 Chronicles 9:23; 15:4, 15; 22:9. Ezra 2:62. Nehemiah 7:64; 12:27. Esther 2:2, 21; 3:6; 6:2; 9:2. Psalms 37:36; 86:14. Ecclesiastes 12:10. Song of Songs 3:1, 1, 2; 5:6. Isaiah 65:1. Jeremiah 26:21; 44:30. Lamentations 1:19. Ezekiel 22:30; 34:4. Daniel 8:15. Zephaniah 1:6. Zechariah 6:7.