בְּעָאbᵉʻâʼ

ask, seek, only Daniel

Pronunciation: beh-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1156

Meanings

Pe`al

1. ask, request (Daniel 2:16; Daniel 2:49; Daniel 7:16)

2. seek (Daniel 2:13; Daniel 6:5)

Pa`el: resort, (for favours) (Daniel 4:33)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Daniel 2:13 And because of the king’s decree, men were sent to find and kill Daniel and his friends.
  • Daniel 2:16 Daniel went at once to see the king and requested more time to tell the king what the dream meant.
  • Daniel 2:18 He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.
  • Daniel 2:23 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the king demanded.”
  • Daniel 2:49 At Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be in charge of all the affairs of the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.
  • Daniel 4:36 “When my sanity returned to me, so did my honor and glory and kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored as head of my kingdom, with even greater honor than before.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).