G2212

ζητέω

zēteō

Verb · Of uncertain affinity

Of uncertain affinity; to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life):—be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means). Compare G4441.

Outline

to seek in order to find

to seek a thing
to seek [in order to find out] by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into
to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after

to seek i.e. require, demand

to crave, demand something from someone

Usages (3/3)

1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

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1 Corinthians 10:33

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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1 Corinthians 13:5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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1 Corinthians 14:12

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

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2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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2 Corinthians 13:3

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

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Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

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Galatians 2:17

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

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Philippians 2:21

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

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Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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1 Thessalonians 2:6

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burden some, as the apostles of Christ.

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2 Timothy 1:17

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

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Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

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first covenant Exodus 24:8.

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1 Peter 3:11

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

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1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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Some men were greatly wounded in the war and preferred to die than to live physically and mentally wounded.

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