Hebrew verb · H7836
שָׁחַר
shacharshaw-khar'
to seek
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâchar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7836is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7836
properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking)
The King James renders it: (do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shachar is rendered "to seek". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Job 7:21וְשִׁ֖חֲרְתַּ֣נִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and earnestly seek me1
- and they sought earnestly1
- and you will look for me1
- he seeks early him1
- I am seeking earnestly you1
- I will seek you1
- seeking1
- seeks diligently1
- they will earnestly seek me1
- they will seek earnestly me1
- to seek1
- you will seek1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁחָה | shachah | to bow | Uses172 |
| שָׁחַת | shachath | to ruin | Uses146 |
| שָׁחַט | shachat | to slaughter | Uses81 |
| שָׁחַח | shachach | to bow | Uses21 |
| שָׁחֹר | shachor | black | Uses6 |
| שָׁחַט | shachat | beaten | Uses5 |
| שָׁחַק | shachaq | to beat | Uses4 |
| שָׁחַד | shachad | to bribe | Uses2 |
| שָׁחִיס | shachis | offspring | Uses2 |
| שָׁחַר | shachar | be black | Uses1 |
| שָׁחִיף | shachiph | paneled | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲֽשַׁחֲ֫רֶ֥ךָּ1
- אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ1
- וּ֝מְשַׁחֲרַ֗י1
- וְשִֽׁחֲרוּ־1
- וְשִׁ֖חֲרְתַּ֣נִי1
- יְ֝שַׁחֲרֻ֗נְנִי1
- יְשַׁחֲרֻֽנְנִי׃1
- לְשַׁחֵ֥ר1
- מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣י1
- שֹׁ֣חֵֽר1
- שִֽׁחֲר֥וֹ1
- תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpi1cs/Sp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpi3mp/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HC/Vpp3cp
- Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vpq2ms/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Vprmpc/Sp1bs
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVprmpc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Job
three uses
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- וְשִׁ֖חֲרְתַּ֣נִיveshichartaniHc/Vpq2ms/Sp1bstagged: and you will look for me
But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
- תְּשַׁחֵ֣רteshacherverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will seek
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣יmeshachareiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: seeking
Psalms
two uses
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- אֲֽשַׁחֲ֫רֶ֥ךָּʾashacharekaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I am seeking earnestly you
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- וְשִֽׁחֲרוּ־veshicharu-conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they sought earnestly
Proverbs
five uses
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
- יְ֝שַׁחֲרֻ֗נְנִיyeshacharuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they will earnestly seek me
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
- לְשַׁחֵ֥רleshacherpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to seek
I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
- וּ֝מְשַׁחֲרַ֗יumeshacharaiconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and earnestly seek me
He who searches out good finds favor, but evil will come to him who seeks it.
- שֹׁ֣חֵֽרshocherverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: seeks diligently
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
- שִֽׁחֲר֥וֹshicharoverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he seeks early him
Isaiah
one use
My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
- אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּʾashacharekaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will seek you
Hosea
one use
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
- יְשַׁחֲרֻֽנְנִי׃yeshacharuniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they will seek earnestly me
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.