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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: to search, to seek, to look for
= action by which deities, humans, or animals make an intensive effort to locate (other) humans, animals, objects, or activities, which often requires them to move from one location to another
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 95 (95 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: to seek (someone's) presence
literally: to seek (someone's) face); hence: = action by which humans make an intensive effort to be in the presence of another human or deity
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 9 (9 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: to inquire, to request, to plead
= action by which humans request information or a favor from someone in authority, or from a deity or other spiritual being, either directly or through the intermediary of a priest or prophet
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 6 (6 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: to seek (God)
= action where humans make an intensive effort to associate with a deity, to serve and worship him, and to get answers to questions
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 28 (28 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: to hold responsible, to call to account, to seek an occasion against (someone else)
literallly: to seek from (someone else's) hand; hence: = causative action by which humans or deities lay the responsiblity for something that happened on someone else and require compensation or punishment
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 10 (10 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 6: to try, to seek (to do something)
= causative action by which animals, humans, or deities do whatever is necessary to perform a particular event
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-06Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 21 (21 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 7: to investigate
= action by which humans make an intensive effort to obtain in-depth information about a certain object or event
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-07Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: to seek
= state in which humans experience the desire to attain a certain status or condition and do what is needed to make this a reality
Semantic domains for this sense Wish Same Semantic Domain Advanced source details
Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-001148-08Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 53 (53 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-001148Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
