חֵקֶר cheqer
Hebrew word for “search” · Strong’s H2714 · used 12 times in 12 verses
Meaning
a search, investigation, searching, enquiry, thing to be searched out
How it is translated
Glosses given for cheqer in context, with how often each is used:
- inquiry 7
- searchings 1
- searching 1
- ¿ the searching 1
- depth 1
- search 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Proverbs 25 (2), Judges 5 (1), Job 5 (1), Job 8 (1), Job 9 (1), Job 11 (1), Job 34 (1), Job 36 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 145 (1)
Forms
- חקר 7
- חקרי 1
- לחקר 1
- החקר 1
- ובחקר 1
- וחקר 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with cheqer more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 5
- מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 3
- גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 4
- עַד ad “till” 4
- פָּלָא pala “to wonder” 2
- לֵב lev “heart” 2
- יָדַע yada “to know” 2
- אִם im “if” 2
- שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 2
Key verses
The verses using cheqer that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Judges 5:16 — Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
- Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Job 9:10 — Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Job 11:7 — Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 34:24 — He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
- Job 36:26 — Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
- Job 38:16 — Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
- Psalms 145:3 — Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Proverbs 25:3 — The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
- Proverbs 25:27 — It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
- Isaiah 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.