signifies (a) “to seek, to seek for,” e.g., Mat 7:7-8<\/span>; Mat 13:45<\/span>; Luk 24:5<\/span>; Joh 6:24<\/span>; of plotting against a person’s life, Mat 2:20<\/span>; Act 21:31<\/span>; Rom 11:3<\/span>; metaphorically, to “seek” by thinking, to “seek” how to do something, or what to obtain, e.g., Mar 11:18<\/span>; Luk 12:29<\/span>; to “seek” to ascertain a meaning, Joh 16:19<\/span>, “do ye inquire;” to “seek” God, Act 17:27<\/span>, RV; Rom 10:20<\/span>; (b) “to seek or strive affter, endeavor, to desire,” e.g., Mat 12:46-47<\/span>, RV, “seeking” (AV, “desiring”); Luk 9:9<\/span>, RV, “sought” (AV, “desired”); Joh 7:19<\/span>, RV, “seek ye” (AV, “go ye about”); so Joh 7:20<\/span>; Rom 10:3<\/span>, RV, “seeking” (AV, “going about”); of “seeking” the kingdom of God and His righteousness, in the sense of coveting earnestly, striving after, Mat 6:33<\/span>; “the things that are above,” Col 3:1<\/span>; peace, 1Pe 3:11<\/span>; (c) “to require or demand,” e.g., Mar 8:12<\/span>; Luk 11:29<\/span> (some mss. have No. 4); 1Co 4:2<\/span>, “it is required;” 2Co 13:3<\/span>, “ye seek.” See ABOUT, B, Note, DESIRE, B, Note (2) ENDEAVOR, GO, Note (2) (a), INQUIRE, REQUIRE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to seek carefully” (ana, “up,” used intensively, and No. 1), is used of searching for human beings, difficulty in the effort being implied Luk 2:44-45<\/span> (some mss. have No. 1 in the latter verse); Act 11:25<\/span>; numerous illustrations of this particular meaning in the papyri are given by Moulton and Milligan. In the Sept., Job 3:4<\/span>; Job 10:6<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n signifies (a) “to seek out (ek) or after, to search for;” e.g., God, Rom 3:11<\/span>; the Lord, Act 15:17<\/span>; in Heb 11:6<\/span>, RV, “seek after” (AV, “diligently seek”); Heb 12:17<\/span>, RV, “sought diligently” (AV, “sought carefully”); 1Pe 1:10<\/span>, RV, “sought” (AV, “have inquired”), followed by exeraunao, “to search diligently;” (b) “to require or demand,” Luk 11:50-51<\/span>. See INQUIRE, Note (3), REQUIRE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to seek after” (directive, epi, “towards”) is always rendered in the RV, by some form of the verb “to seek,” Act 13:7<\/span>, “sought” (AV, “desired”); Act 19:39<\/span>, “seek” (AV, “inquire”); Phi 4:17<\/span>, “seek for” (AV, “desire”), twice; elsewhere, Mat 6:32<\/span>; Mat 12:39<\/span>; Mat 16:4<\/span>; Mar 8:12<\/span> (in some texts); Luk 12:30<\/span>; Act 12:19<\/span>; Rom 11:7<\/span>; Heb 11:14<\/span>; Heb 13:14<\/span>. See DESIRE, INQUIRE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to reach out, or after,” used in the Middle Voice is translated “seeketh” in 1Ti 3:1<\/span>, RV, of “seeking overseership” (AV, “desireth”). See DESIRE, No. 5. <\/p>\n Note: For the RV renderings of zeloo, in Gal 4:17-18<\/span>, “they zealously seek,” “ye may seek,” “to be zealously sought,” see AFFECT, Note, and ZEALOUS. <\/p>\n Seek signifies (a) “to seek, to seek for,” e.g., Mat 7:7-8; Mat 13:45; Luk 24:5; Joh 6:24; of plotting against a person’s life, Mat 2:20; Act 21:31; Rom 11:3; metaphorically, to “seek” by thinking, to “seek” how to do something, or what to obtain, e.g., Mar 11:18; Luk 12:29; to “seek” to ascertain a meaning, … Continue reading “Seek”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"