חָקַר
cha.qar
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Occurrences in Scripture
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then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,
Judges 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
1 Samuel 20:12Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you?
2 Samuel 10:3But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”
1 Kings 7:47Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
1 Chronicles 19:3But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
2 Chronicles 4:18Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Job 5:27Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Job 28:3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job 28:27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.
Job 32:11“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Psalms 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Psalms 139:1Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
Proverbs 18:17He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
Proverbs 23:30Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 28:11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Ecclesiastes 12:9Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Jeremiah 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Jeremiah 31:37Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 46:23They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
Lamentations 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Ezekiel 39:14“ ‘ “They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.