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# חֵקֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2714

**searching** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

searching [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2714/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫קֶר: n.m. searching, thing (to be) searched out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2714/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ju 5:16 searching, thing (to be) searched out;—abs. הֵ֫קֶר Jb 5:9 + 8 times; cstr. id. Pr 25:27 + 2 times; pl. cstr. חִקְרֵי Ju 5:16;—חִקְרֵי לֵב Ju 5:16 searchings, questionings of heart; Jb 11:7 canst thou reach ח׳ אֱלוֹהַּ i.e. what is to be explored in him, the whole range of his nature, so ח׳ תהום 38:16 the range of the deep; especially אֵין ח׳ i.e. it is unsearchable Jb 5:9; 9:10 ψ 145:3 Pr 25:3 Is 40:28, cf. לא ח׳ Jb 34:24; 36:26; ח׳ אבותם 8:8 i.e. thing searched out by their fathers.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: searching (7); the searching (3); resolves (1).

## In the verses

[Job 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.9/#tree)

עֹשֶׂ֣ה גְ֭דֹלוֹת וְאֵ֣ין חֵ֑קֶר נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת עַד־אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[who\].does great.\[things\] and there.\[is\].not searching wonders until there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

[Job 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/#tree)

הַחֵ֣קֶר אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית שַׁדַּ֣י תִּמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* the searching? of.God will.you.find or? to the.end of.\[the\].Almighty will.you.find

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou find out the deep things of God? Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2714.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2714/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).