Chêqer — H2714

Definition

masculine noun

examination, enumeration, deliberation

1. a search, investigation, searching, enquiry, thing to be searched out

Usually translated as

search, searching, number, searched, finding out, unsearch, searchable

Origin

from H2713

• Derived from Châqar (H2713)

Greek equivalents

• íchnos (G2487)
• péras (G4009)

Occurrences

Chêqer occurs 12 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Job (7), Psalms (1), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (1)

• Judges 5:16 — Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings (חִקְרֵי) of heart.
• Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable (חֵ֑קֶר); marvellous things without number:
• Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search (לְחֵ֣קֶר) of their fathers:
• Job 9:10 — Which doeth great things past finding out (חֵ֑קֶר); yea, and wonders without number.
• Job 11:7 — Canst thou by searching (הַחֵ֣קֶר) find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
• Job 34:24 — He shall break in pieces mighty men without number (חֵ֑קֶר), and set others in their stead.
• Job 36:26 — Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out (חֵֽקֶר).
• Job 38:16 — Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search (וּבְחֵ֥קֶר) of the depth?
• Psalms 145:3 — Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable (חֵֽקֶר).
• Proverbs 25:3 — The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable (חֵֽקֶר).
• Proverbs 25:27 — It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search (וְחֵ֖קֶר) their own glory is not glory.
• Isaiah 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching (חֵ֖קֶר) of his understanding.