Vocabulary Form
ζητέω
Definition

I seek, desire, try to obtain

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ζητε
Frequency
117
GK
2426
Forms
(ἐζήτουν), ζητήσω, ἐζήτησα, -, -, ἐζητήθην

Biblical Concordance

Luke 2:49 And he said to them, “Why is it that you were looking (ezēteite | ἐζητεῖτε | imperf act ind 2 pl) for me? Did you not know that I would have to be in my Father’s house?”
Luke 5:18 that there were men carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They were trying (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to bring him in and place him before Jesus.
Luke 6:19 And all the crowd was trying (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.
Luke 9:9 Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So he was trying (ezētei | ἐζήτει | imperf act ind 3 sg) to see him.
Luke 11:9 “So to you I say, ask and it will be given to you; seek (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.
Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who seeks (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) finds, and for everyone who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:16 Others, to test him, kept (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) demanding (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) from him a sign from heaven.
Luke 11:24 “When the unclean spirit departs from a person, it travels through waterless places seeking (zētoun | ζητοῦν | pres act ptcp nom sg neut) rest, and not finding one; then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I departed.’
Luke 11:29 As the crowds were getting larger, Jesus began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) looks (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) for (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
Luke 12:29 And you, do (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) not have as an overriding concern (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) what to eat and what to drink; do not let such things bother you.
Luke 12:31 Instead, have (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) his kingdom as (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) your (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) overriding (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) concern (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl), and these things will be given to you in addition.
Luke 12:48 But the one who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few blows. Everyone to whom much was given, much will be required (zētēthēsetai | ζητηθήσεται | fut pass ind 3 sg) from him, and to whom much was handed over, they will ask more of him.
Luke 13:6 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) for fruit on it and found none.
Luke 13:7 And he said to the vineyard worker, ‘Look, for three years now, I have come looking (zētōn | ζητῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) for fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Remove it. Why should it use up the soil?’
Luke 13:24 “Do your best to go in through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try (zētēsousin | ζητήσουσιν | fut act ind 3 pl) to go in and not be able.
Luke 15:8 “Or what woman, who has ten silver coins, should she lose one coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search (zētei | ζητεῖ | pres act ind 3 sg) diligently until she finds it?
Luke 17:33 Whoever tries (zētēsē | ζητήσῃ | aor act subj 3 sg) to retain his life for himself will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 19:3 He was trying (ezētei | ἐζήτει | imperf act ind 3 sg) to see Jesus — who he was — but was not able to on account of the crowd, because he was short in stature.
Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek (zētēsai | ζητῆσαι | aor act inf ) and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:47 He began to teach daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) to destroy him,
Luke 20:19 The scribes and the chief priests tried (ezētēsan | ἐζήτησαν | aor act ind 3 pl) to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them, but they feared the people.
Luke 22:2 The chief priests and the scribes were looking (ezētoun | ἐζήτουν | imperf act ind 3 pl) for a way how they might put Jesus to death, for they were afraid of the people.
Luke 22:6 He agreed and began looking (ezētei | ἐζήτει | imperf act ind 3 sg) for an opportunity to deliver him up to them in the absence of a crowd.
Luke 24:5 The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) for the living among the dead?
John 1:38 When Jesus turned around and saw them following him, he said to them, “What do you want?” (zēteite | ζητεῖτε | pres act ind 2 pl) They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”