חֵקֶר
cheker · searching
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2714 · appears 12 times in the Bible
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cheker (חֵקֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “searching”.
Examining or thinking something through thoroughly. In the song it sounds almost the same as "resolves" (verse 15); it is a play on sounds in Hebrew.
How to say it
che·ker
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
- Something so deep that no one can come to know it fully.
- The deepest part, like the bottom of the deep.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- searching ×4
- be searched out ×2
- depths ×1
- inquiry ×1
- recesses ×1
- search out ×1
- unsearchable ×1
- were the searchings ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 5:16
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, to listen to the whistling for the flocks? In the divisions of Reuben great were the searchings of heart.
- Job 5:9
who does great things that cannot be searched out, wonders without number;
- Job 8:8
For ask, please, the first generation, and apply yourself to the searching of their fathers.
- Job 9:10
who does great things that cannot be searched out, and wonders without number.
- Job 11:7
Can you find the depths of Eloah? Or can you find the very limit of Shaddai?
- Job 34:24
He shatters the mighty without inquiry, and sets others in their place.
- Job 36:26
Look, El is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is beyond searching.
- Job 38:16
Have you entered as far as the springs of the sea, and in the recesses of the deep walked about?
- Psalms 145:3
Great is YHWH and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Proverbs 25:3
The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings are beyond searching.
- Proverbs 25:27
To eat much honey is not good, and to search out their glory is glory.
- Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know, or have you not heard? The eternal Elohim is YHWH, Creator of the ends of the earth; he does not grow tired nor weary; there is no searching of his understanding.