chakar · search out, examine

What it means

chakar (חָקַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “search out, examine”.

Search out: examine something thoroughly.

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 and examine something until it is well known.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• searched out ×5
• explore ×4
• search out ×3
• investigated ×2
• search ×2
• searched it out ×2
• Examine me ×1
• I sound out ×1
• examine them ×1
• examines him ×1
• others ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Deuteronomy 13:14

  then you shall seek and investigate and ask thoroughly. And look, if it is true and the matter certain, that this abomination has been done among you,

• Judges 18:2

  So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.

• 1 Samuel 20:12

  Jonathan said to David, “YHWH, Elohim of Israel! When I sound out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, and look, there is good toward David, will I not then send to you and make it known to you?

• 2 Samuel 10:3

  and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore the city, to spy it out and to overthrow it, that David has sent his servants to you?”

• 1 Kings 7:47

  And Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because of the exceedingly great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not investigated.

• 1 Chronicles 19:3

  and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore and to overthrow and to spy out the land that his servants have come to you?”

• 2 Chronicles 4:18

  Solomon made all these utensils in very great abundance, for the weight of the bronze was not investigated.

• Job 5:27

  Look, this we have searched out; so it is. Hear it, and you, know it for yourself.”

• Job 13:9

  Will it be good when he searches you out? Or as one deceives a mortal, will you deceive him?

• Job 28:3

  He sets an end to darkness, and to every limit he searches out the stone of gloom and of the shadow of death.

• Job 28:27

  then he saw it and recounted it; he established it, and also searched it out.

• Job 29:16

  A father I was to the needy, and the case I did not know, I searched it out.

• Job 32:11

  Look, I waited for your words, I gave ear to your reasonings, while you searched out words.

• Psalms 44:21

  would not Elohim search out this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Psalms 139:1

  For the director. Of David. A psalm. YHWH, you have examined me and known me.

• Psalms 139:23

  Examine me, El, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

• Proverbs 18:17

  The first in his dispute seems righteous, but his neighbor comes and examines him.

• Proverbs 23:30

  Those who linger over wine, those who go to search out mixed wine.

• Proverbs 25:2

  It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to search out a matter.

• Proverbs 28:11

  A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who understands searches him out.

• Ecclesiastes 12:9

  And besides that Qohelet was wise, he also taught the people knowledge, and he weighed and searched out; he arranged many proverbs.

• Jeremiah 17:10

  I, YHWH, search the heart, I test the kidneys, to give to each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

• Jeremiah 31:37

  Thus says YHWH: “If the heavens can be measured above, and the foundations of the earth searched out below, then also I will reject all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 46:23

  They have cut down her forest, declares YHWH, though it cannot be searched out; for they are more numerous than the locust, and they have no number.

• Lamentations 3:40

  Let us search our ways and examine them, and let us return to YHWH.

• Ezekiel 39:14

  And they will set apart men of continual duty passing through the land, burying, with those who pass through, those who remain on the face of the land, to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will search.

And 1 more times.