בַּקָּשָׁה
request
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1246 appears — 8 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
Esther 7 verses
- Esther 5:3 בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Then said the king to her, What will you, queen Esther? and what is your request? it shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.
- Esther 5:6 בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
- Esther 5:7 וּ/בַקָּשָׁתִֽ/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:
- Esther 5:8 בַּקָּשָׁתִ֑/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.
- Esther 7:2 בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
- Esther 7:3 בְּ/בַקָּשָׁתִֽ/י prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Then Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
- Esther 9:12 בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs The king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בקשה — transliterated baqqâshâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “request.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Esther. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. Debuting at Ezra 7:6, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1246 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Request 3×, Thee and what is thy request 2×
- American Standard Version: Thee 3×, Request 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Request 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Request 5×, Is your request 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1246 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1246 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1246 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1246 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- request, entreaty, petition
Word origin
[ בַּקָּשָׁה ] n.m. request, entreaty
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בקש (bâqash) (H1245) — to seek.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בַּקָּשָׁה
- preced.) desire, prayer. Ned. XI, 12 דרך ב׳ in the way of a request (to give a divorce, v. preced.). Ber. 9ᵃ, a. fr. אין נא אלא לשון ב׳ the word נָא in the Bible means prayer (I pray &c.). Ib. 57ᵃ תלויה בַקָּשָׁתוֹ his prayer is held in suspense (its fulfillment is doubtful).—בב׳ ממך I pray thee, v. בָּעוּ. Ib. 9ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 75 end; a. fr.—Pl. בַּקָּשֹׁות
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1246 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 5:3 | 3 |
| בְּ/בַקָּשָׁתִֽ/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 7:3 | 1 |
| בַּקָּשָׁתִ֑/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 5:8 | 1 |
| בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 9:12 | 1 |
| בַּקָּשָׁתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 7:6 | 1 |
| וּ/בַקָּשָׁתִֽ/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Esther 5:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
