Definition

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

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• ask
• at all
• care for
• diligently
• inquire
• make inquisition
• (necro-) mancer
• question
• require
• search
• seek (for
• out)
• surely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.