Word Direct Answers

What does "seek" mean?

Seek: To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou And he said, I seek my brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 15,16.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech. Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke xi.
  2. 3.3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
  3. 4.To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. Amos v.
  4. 5.Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. Pope.
  5. 6.To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. Isa. xxxiv.
  6. 7.To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated. "Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek." Milton. [Obs] -- To seek after, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. -- To seek for, to endeavor to find. -- To seek to, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] "All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom."
  7. 8.Kings x.
  8. 9.-- To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.] To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. Chaucer.

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