shachar · seek early, seek diligently

What it means

shachar (שָׁחַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seek early, seek diligently”.

To seek earnestly, from early on. It comes from the word "dawn": to rise early to look for something.

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 pursue something eagerly, from early on.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• will seek ×4
• I seek you early ×1
• I seek you earnestly ×1
• Whoever eagerly seeks ×1
• eagerly gives him ×1
• eagerly sought ×1
• seek eagerly ×1
• seeking ×1
• those who seek me eagerly ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Job 7:21

  And why do you not pardon my transgression and let my iniquity pass away? For now in the dust I will lie down; and you will seek me, and I will be no more.”

• Job 8:5

  If you will seek El and plead with Shaddai,

• Job 24:5

  Look, like wild donkeys in the wilderness they go out to their work, seeking prey; the steppe yields them bread for the boys.

• Psalms 63:1

  A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Elohim, my El are you; I seek you earnestly; my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a land dry and weary, without water.

• Psalms 78:34

  When he killed them, they sought him, and they returned and eagerly sought El.

• Proverbs 1:28

  Then they will call me, and I will not answer; they will seek me eagerly, and they will not find me;

• Proverbs 7:15

  That is why I came out to meet you, to seek eagerly your face, and I have found you.

• Proverbs 8:17

  I love those who love me, and those who seek me eagerly will find me.

• Proverbs 11:27

  Whoever eagerly seeks good seeks favor, but whoever searches for evil, it will come to him.

• Proverbs 13:24

  Whoever holds back his rod hates his son, but whoever loves him eagerly gives him correction.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul I have longed for you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I seek you early, for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

• Hosea 5:15

  I will go away, I will return to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will seek me earnestly.