בָּקַרbâqar
inquire, seek
Pronunciation: baw-kar · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1239
Meanings
Pi`el: seek, look for (Ezekiel 34:11; Leviticus 13:36; Leviticus 27:33)
Same root
- בּוֹקֵרbôwqêr · H951a cattle-tender
- בַּקְבַּקַּרBaqbaqqar · H1230Bakbakkar, an Israelite
- בְּקַרbᵉqar · H1240{properly, to plough, or (generally) break forth, i.e. (figuratively) to inspect, admire, care for, consider}
- בָּקָרbâqâr · H1241beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
- בֹּקֶרbôqer · H1242properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
- בַּקָּרָהbaqqârâh · H1243a looking after
- בִּקֹּרֶתbiqqôreth · H1244properly, examination, i.e. (by implication) punishment
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 13:36 the priest must do another examination. If he finds that the sore has spread, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair. The infected person is ceremonially unclean.
- Leviticus 27:33 You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may not substitute one for another. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy and cannot be bought back.”
- 2 Kings 16:15 He told Uriah the priest, “Use the new altar for the morning sacrifices of burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt offerings of all the people, as well as their grain offerings and liquid offerings. Sprinkle the blood from all the burnt offerings and sacrifices on the new altar. The bronze altar will be for my personal use only.”
- Psalms 27:4 The one thing I ask of the Lord— the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.
- Proverbs 20:25 Don’t trap yourself by making a rash promise to God and only later counting the cost.
- Ezekiel 34:11 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search and find my sheep.
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).