Greek Strong's Lexicon
G2212
Lemma: ζητέω
Transliteration: dzay-teh'-o
Definition: 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 πυνθάνομαι.
KJV Definition: be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means)
Verse usage
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1 Korintionan 1:22
NASB
For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom;
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1 Korintionan 7:27
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Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
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1 Korintionan 10:24
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Let no one seek his own [good], but that of his neighbor.
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1 Korintionan 10:33
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just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the [profit] of the many, so that they may be saved.
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1 Korintionan 13:5
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does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong [suffered],
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1 Korintionan 14:12
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So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.
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2 Korintionan 12:14
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Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for [their] parents, but parents for [their] children.
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2 Korintionan 13:3
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since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.
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Galatanan 1:10
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For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
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Galatanan 2:17
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"But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!
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Filipensenan 2:21
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For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
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Kolosensenan 3:1
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Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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1 Tesalonisensenan 2:6
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nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.
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2 Timoteo 1:17
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but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me--
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Hebreonan 8:7
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For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
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1 Pedro 3:11
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"HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.
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1 Pedro 5:8
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Be of sober [spirit], be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
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Revelashon 9:6
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And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.