For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ζητέω
Vocabulary form:
zhtevw
Definition:
I seek, desire, try to obtain
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
117
GK:
2426
Root:
zhte
Forms:
(ejzhvtoun), zhthvsw, ejzhvthsa, -, -, ejzhthvqhn
Biblical Concordance
| 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. |
Mnemonics
Mnemonic
I see two red shoes in the window and seek to obtain them.
ζη- Seek
ζη- Seek
τέ- Desire
try to
ω- Obtain