דָּרַשׁ dârash — properly, to tread or frequent
Translated in the KJV as ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out).
a primitive root; properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship.
dârash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 36Imperfect (yiqtol) 32Perfect (qatal) 27Participle (active) 22Imperative 17Sequential perfect (weqatal) 10Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive absolute 2Cohortative 2Jussive 2Participle (passive) 2
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.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.
And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
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 ›