בַּקָּשָׁה
bakasha · request
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1246 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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bakasha (בַּקָּשָׁה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “request”.
What someone asks of a king or of God.
How to say it
ba·ka·sha
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What someone asks of a king.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- petition ×7
- he requested ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 7:6
this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had given; and the king gave him, according to the hand of YHWH his Elohim upon him, all he requested.
- Esther 5:3
And the king said to her, “What is the matter with you, Esther the queen? And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be given to you.”
- Esther 5:6
And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”
- Esther 5:7
And Esther answered and said, “My request and my petition:
- Esther 5:8
if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it seems good to the king to grant my request and to do my petition, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king.”
- Esther 7:2
And the king said to Esther also on the second day, at the banquet of wine, “What is your request, Esther the queen? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”
- Esther 7:3
And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me at my request, and my people at my petition.
- Esther 9:12
And the king said to Esther the queen, “In Susa, the fortress, the Jews have killed and made perish five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the king’s provinces what have they done? And what is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition further? It will be done.”