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ζητέω

Definition and meaning

zeteo (dzay-teh'-o) v. 1. to seek 2. (specially, by Hebraism) to worship (God) 3. (in a bad sense) to plot (against life) {literally or figuratively} [of uncertain affinity] KJV: be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means) Compare: G4441

Tagged KJV passages

116 matching verses - 121.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Romans 11:3

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

Matched English: seek
1 Corinthians 1:22

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

Matched English: seek
1 Corinthians 4:2

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Matched English: required
1 Corinthians 7:27

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Matched English: seek, seek
1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

Matched English: Let, seek
1 Corinthians 10:33

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

Matched English: seeking
1 Corinthians 13:5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Matched English: seeketh
1 Corinthians 14:12

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Matched English: seek
2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Matched English: seek
2 Corinthians 13:3

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Matched English: seek
Galatians 1:10

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Matched English: seek
Galatians 2:17

But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Matched English: seek
Philippians 2:21

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

Matched English: seek
Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Matched English: seek
1 Thessalonians 2:6

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

Matched English: sought
2 Timothy 1:17

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Matched English: sought, out
Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Matched English: sought
1 Peter 3:11

Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

Matched English: seek
1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Matched English: seeking
Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Matched English: seek