Definition
I seek, desire, try to obtain
Vocabulary Form
ζητέω
Erasmian
Modern
Root
ζητε
Frequency
117
GK
2426
Forms
(ἐζήτουν), ζητήσω, ἐζήτησα, -, -, ἐζητήθην
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. |