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ζητέω

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ζητέω
Greek transliteration: 
zēteō
Simplified transliteration: 
zeteo
Principal Parts: 
(ἐζήτουν), ζητήσω, ἐζήτησα, -, -, ἐζητήθην
Numbers
Strong's number: 
2212
GK Number: 
2426
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
117
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-1d(2a)
Gloss: 
to look for, seek out; to try to obtain, desire to possess, strive for
Definition: 
to seek, look for, Mt. 18:12; Lk. 2:48, 49; to search after, Mt. 13:45; to be on the watch for, Mt. 26:16; to pursue, endeavor to obtain, Rom. 2:7; 1 Pet. 3:11; to desire, wish, want, Mt. 12:47; to seek, strive for, Mt. 6:33; to endeavor, Mt. 21:46; to require, demand, ask for, Mk. 8:11; Lk. 11:16; 12:48; to inquire or ask questions, question, Jn. 16:19; to deliberate, Mk. 11:18; Lk. 12:29; in NT from Hebrew, ζητειν τὴν ψυχήν, to seek the life of any one, to seek to kill, Mt. 2:20

Greek-English Concordance for ζητέω

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is here already, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for indeed the Father is (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) seeking (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) just such people to be his worshipers.
John 4:27 Just then his disciples came back. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman; however, no one said to her, “What do you want?” (zēteis | ζητεῖς | pres act ind 2 sg) or to him, “Why are you talking with her?”
John 5:18 This was why the Jews were (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) seeking (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) all the more to kill him, because he not only used to break the Sabbath, but he also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just because I (zētō | ζητῶ | pres act ind 1 sg) seek (zētō | ζητῶ | pres act ind 1 sg) not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:44 How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another but do (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) not seek (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) the praise that comes from the only God?
John 6:24 So when the crowd realized that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking (zētountes | ζητοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) for Jesus.
John 6:26 Jesus responded saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are not looking (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the loaves and had all you wanted.
John 7:1 After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to remain in Judea, because the Jews were seeking (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to kill him.
John 7:4 For no one acts in secret if he desires (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) public recognition. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
John 7:11 The Jews were looking (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) for him at the festival, and saying, “Where is that man?”
John 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) his own honor; but the one who seeks (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) the honor of the one who sent him is truthful, and in him there is nothing false.
John 7:19 “Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) you (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) trying (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) to kill me?”
John 7:20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) trying (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) to kill you?”
John 7:25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Is not this the man whom they are trying (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) to kill?
John 7:30 So they were anxious (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 7:34 You will look (zētēsete | ζητήσετε | fut act ind 2 pl) for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot go.”
John 7:36 What can it mean, this saying of his: ‘You will look (zētēsete | ζητήσετε | fut act ind 2 pl) for me but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am you cannot go’?”
John 8:21 Then he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will search (zētēsete | ζητήσετε | fut act ind 2 pl) for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
John 8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; but you are intent (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) on killing me, because my teaching makes no headway in you.
John 8:40 But now you are intent (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) on killing me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did!
John 8:50 I am (zētō | ζητῶ | pres act ind 1 sg) not seeking (zētō | ζητῶ | pres act ind 1 sg) glory for myself; there is one who seeks (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) it and he is the one who judges.
John 10:39 So once again they tried (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to arrest him, but he escaped out of their grasp.
John 11:8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, just recently the Jews were trying (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to stone you, and are you going back there again?”
John 11:56 They were looking (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) for Jesus and were talking with one another as they were standing in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”
John 13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look (zētēsete | ζητήσετε | fut act ind 2 pl) for me; and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you also.
John 16:19 Jesus knew that they wanted to question him, so he said to them, “Are (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) you (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) deliberating (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) with one another about this — that I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?
John 18:4 Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, stepped forward and said to them, “Who is it that you are looking (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for?”
John 18:7 Then Jesus asked them again, “Who is it that you are looking (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
John 18:8 Jesus replied, “I told you that I am he. So if you (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) are (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) looking (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) me, let these men go.”
John 19:12 From that point on Pilate tried (ezētei | ἐζήτει | imperf act ind 3 sg) to release him, but the Jews kept shouting out, saying, “If you release this man, you are no ‘Friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
John 20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it that you are looking (zēteis | ζητεῖς | pres act ind 2 sg) for?” Thinking that he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you are the one who carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.”
Acts 9:11 Then the Lord told him, “Get up and go to the street called ‘Straight,’ and inquire (zētēson | ζήτησον | aor act imperative 2 sg) at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for even now he is praying,
Acts 10:19 As Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking (zētountes | ζητοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) for you.
Acts 10:21 And Peter went down to the men and said, “Behold, I am the one you are looking (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for. What is the reason for which you have come?”
Acts 13:8 But Elymas the magician (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
Acts 13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness, and as he went about he sought (ezētei | ἐζήτει | imperf act ind 3 sg) someone to lead him by the hand.
Acts 16:10 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we tried (ezētēsamen | ἐζητήσαμεν | aor act ind 1 pl) to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved by envy, recruited certain wicked men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city in an uproar. They (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) attacked the house of Jason, trying (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to bring them out to the people.
Acts 17:27 that they should seek (zētein | ζητεῖν | pres act inf ) God, if perhaps that they might grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
Acts 21:31 And while they were trying (zētountōn | ζητούντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the detachment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 27:30 But when (zētountōn | ζητούντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) the sailors tried (zētountōn | ζητούντων | pres act ptcp gen pl masc) to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into the sea pretending they intended to let down anchors from the bow,
Romans 2:7 to those who (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) by patiently doing good works seek (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) for (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Romans 10:3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking (zētountes | ζητοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
Romans 10:20 Then Isaiah very boldly says, “I was found by those who (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) were (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) not looking (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) for (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) me; I became well known to those who were not asking for me.”
Romans 11:3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) my life.”
1 Corinthians 1:22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks are (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) looking (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) for (zētousin | ζητοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) wisdom,
1 Corinthians 4:2 In this connection then, it is required (zēteitai | ζητεῖται | pres pass ind 3 sg) of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 7:27 If you are married to a wife, do not seek (zētei | ζήτει | pres act imperative 2 sg) to be set free; if you are free from a wife, do (zētei | ζήτει | pres act imperative 2 sg) not seek (zētei | ζήτει | pres act imperative 2 sg) a wife.
1 Corinthians 10:24 Let (zēteitō | ζητείτω | pres act imperative 3 sg) no one seek (zēteitō | ζητείτω | pres act imperative 3 sg) his own advantage, but that of the other.
1 Corinthians 10:33 even as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) my own advantage but that of the many, so that they may be saved.

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