Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1875: דָּרַשׁ

dârash · pronounced daw-rash' · “to seek”

Definition

properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship

KJV translates it as: ask, [idiom] at all, care for, [idiom] diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), [idiom] surely.

Word origin: a primitive root;

Extended definition

1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)
1a2) to consult, enquire of, seek
1a2a) of God
1a2b) of heathen gods, necromancers
1a3) to seek deity in prayer and worship
1a3a) God
1a3b) heathen deities
1a4) to seek (with a demand), demand, require
1a5) to investigate, enquire
1a6) to ask for, require, demand
1a7) to practice, study, follow, seek with application
1a8) to seek with care, care for
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)
1b2) to be sought, be sought out
1b3) to be required (of blood)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1875 is translated

  • seek ×26
  • consult ×19
  • him ×10
  • i will seek ×5
  • it ×5
  • he sought ×5
  • one who seeks ×4
  • me ×4
  • you will seek ×3
  • they have sought ×3
  • you will investigate ×2
  • i will require ×2

Bible verses with H1875 (dârash)

Dârash appears in 152 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 9:5

    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.

  • Genesis 25:22

    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.

  • Genesis 42:22

    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.

  • Exodus 18:15

    And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:

  • Leviticus 10:16

    And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,

  • Deuteronomy 4:29

    But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

  • Deuteronomy 11:12

    A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

  • Deuteronomy 12:5

    But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

  • Deuteronomy 12:30

    Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

  • Deuteronomy 13:14

    Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

  • Deuteronomy 17:4

    And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

  • Deuteronomy 17:9

    And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

  • Deuteronomy 18:11

    Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

  • Deuteronomy 18:19

    And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

  • Deuteronomy 19:18

    And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

  • Deuteronomy 22:2

    And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

  • Deuteronomy 23:6

    Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

  • Deuteronomy 23:21

    When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

  • Judges 6:29

    And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.

  • 1 Samuel 9:9

    (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

  • 1 Samuel 28:7

    Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En–dor.

  • 2 Samuel 11:3

    And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath–sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

  • 1 Kings 14:5

    And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

  • 1 Kings 22:5

    And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.

  • 1 Kings 22:7

    And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?

All 152 references

Words derived from H1875

מִדְרָשׁ H4097

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