בָּקַשׁ bâqash — to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer)
Translated in the KJV as ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, request, require, seek.
a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after.
bâqash in each stem
Pi'el
Participle (active) 63Imperfect (yiqtol) 43Infinitive construct 32Perfect (qatal) 30Wayyiqtol 28Imperative 12Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Jussive 5Cohortative 2
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Wayyiqtol 1
And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›