bekar · search, inquire

What it means

bekar (בְּקַר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “search, inquire”.

To search, to inquire carefully (Aramaic), for example in the archives of the kingdom.

How to say it

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

1. To search the archives or look into something carefully (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• investigate ×2
• they investigated ×2
• let it be investigated ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra 4:15

  so that someone may investigate in the book of the memorials of your fathers; and you will find in the book of the memorials and know that that city is a rebellious city, causing harm to kings and provinces, and that they have been making sedition within it since the days of old; for this reason that city was laid waste.

• Ezra 4:19

  And by me an order was given, and they investigated and found that that city since the days of old has risen up against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

• Ezra 5:17

  And now, if to the king it seems good, let it be investigated in the house of the treasures of the king there in Babylon, whether it is so that by Cyrus the king an order was given to build that house of Elah in Jerusalem; and let the will of the king concerning this be sent to us.”

• Ezra 6:1

  Then Darius the king gave an order, and they investigated in the house of the books where the treasures were deposited there in Babylon.

• Ezra 7:14

  Because you are sent from before the king and his seven counselors to investigate about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your Elah, which is in your hand,