baw-kash'
a primitive root; to search out (by any method, specifically
in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after:--ask,
beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure,
(make) request, require, seek (for).
A time [06256] to get [01245], and a time [06256] to lose [06]; a time [06256] to keep [08104], and a time [06256] to cast away [07993];get: or, seek
That which hath been is now [03528]; and that which is to be hath already [03528] been; and God [0430] requireth [01245] that which is past [07291].that which is past: Heb. that which is driven away
I applied [05437] mine heart [03820] to know [03045], and to search [08446], and to seek out [01245] wisdom [02451], and the reason [02808] of things, and to know [03045] the wickedness [07562] of folly [03689], even of foolishness [05531] and madness [01947]:I applied…: Heb. I and mine heart compassed
Which yet my soul [05315] seeketh [01245], but I find [04672] not: one [0259] man [0120] among a thousand [0505] have I found [04672]; but a woman [0802] among all those have I not found [04672].
Lo [07200], this only [0905] have I found [04672], that God [0430] hath made [06213] man [0120] upright [03477]; but they have sought out [01245] many [07227] inventions [02810].
Then I beheld [07200] all the work [04639] of God [0430], that a man [0120] cannot [03201] find out [04672] the work [04639] that is done [06213] under the sun [08121]: because [0834] though [07945] a man [0120] labour [05998] to seek it out [01245], yet he shall not find [04672] it; yea further; though a wise [02450] man think [0559] to know [03045] it, yet shall he not be able [03201] to find [04672] it.
The preacher [06953] sought [01245] to find out [04672] acceptable [02656] words [01697]: and that which was written [03789] was upright [03476], even words [01697] of truth [0571].acceptable…: Heb. words of delight