דָּרַשׁ dârash

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: ask, [idiom] at all, care for, [idiom] diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), [idiom] surely.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• 2 Chronicles 24:6 So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”
• 2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
• 2 Chronicles 25:15 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
• 2 Chronicles 25:20 But Amaziah would not listen, for this had come from God in order to deliver them into the hand of Jehoash, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
• 2 Chronicles 26:5 He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
• 2 Chronicles 30:19 who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
• 2 Chronicles 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,
• 2 Chronicles 31:21 He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
• 2 Chronicles 32:31 And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
• 2 Chronicles 34:21 “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
• 2 Chronicles 34:26 But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
• Ezra 4:2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
• Ezra 6:21 The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
• Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
• Ezra 9:12 Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
• Ezra 10:16 So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
• Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
• Job 3:4 If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
• Job 5:8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
• Job 10:6 that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
• Job 39:8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
• Psalms 9:10 Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
• Psalms 9:12 For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
• Psalms 10:4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Psalms 10:13 Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
• Psalms 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
• Psalms 14:2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Psalms 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Psalms 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
• Psalms 34:4 I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
• Psalms 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
• Psalms 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
• Psalms 53:2 God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Psalms 69:32 The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
• Psalms 77:2 In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
• Psalms 78:34 When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
• Psalms 105:4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
• Psalms 109:10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
• Psalms 111:2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
• Psalms 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
• Psalms 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• Psalms 119:45 And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
• Psalms 119:94 I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
• Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
• Psalms 142:4 Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
• Proverbs 11:27 He who searches out good finds favor, but evil will come to him who seeks it.
• Proverbs 31:13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
• Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
• Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
• Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
• Isaiah 9:13 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
• Isaiah 11:10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
• Isaiah 16:5 in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
• Isaiah 19:3 Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
• Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
• Isaiah 34:16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
• Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Isaiah 58:2 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• Isaiah 62:12 And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.