שָׁחַר
sha.char (H7836)
to seek
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# שָׁחַר (shachar): The Hebrew Verb "to Seek" The Hebrew verb שָׁחַר (shachar), appearing twelve times in the biblical text, carries the primary meaning "to seek." This verb describes the action of looking for or pursuing something with intentionality. The modest frequency of occurrences—just a dozen instances across the entire Bible—suggests it represents a specific semantic choice rather than the most common way Hebrew speakers expressed searching or seeking, distinguishing it from more frequent synonyms that may have carried different nuances or contexts. The word's limited but deliberate use in biblical literature indicates it likely conveyed particular shades of meaning important to the writers who employed it. While the provided data confirms only the basic definition "to seek" without specifying the contexts or objects of these searches, the twelve occurrences would have been distributed across different literary genres and historical periods of biblical composition. This distribution would have shaped how ancient and modern readers understood the specific circumstances where this particular verb was chosen to describe the act of seeking, though determining those specific contexts would require consulting the actual passages where the word appears.
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Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”