# H1245 בָּקַשׁ

בָּקַשׁ (bâqash), Strong’s H1245: to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after KJV: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition…

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*bâqash* — to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after

KJV: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request…

Occurs 225 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [בָּקַשׁ] 224 vb. seek
- Pi.
- 1 seek to find
- 2 seek to secure
- 3 seek the face
- 4 desire, demand
- a require, exact
- b exact equivalent or penalty for
- 6 (late) ask, request
- Pu. be sought

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=39) — That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by…
- [Genesis 37:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=15) — A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
- [Genesis 37:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=16) — He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”
- [Genesis 43:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=9) — I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you…
- [Genesis 43:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=30) — Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and…
- [Exodus 2:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=15) — Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the…
- [Exodus 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=19) — The LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
- [Exodus 4:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=24) — On the way at a lodging place, the LORD met Moses and wanted to kill him.
- [Exodus 10:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=11) — Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from…
- [Exodus 33:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/33?v=7) — Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of…