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beseech

Meaning of “beseech”

To ask, request, entreat, or implore earnestly.

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67 occurrences64 verses31 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 3:18

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Psalms 116:4
Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 116:4 · retained source text

Then called I vpon the Name of the LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee deliuer my soule.

Psalms 118:25
Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 118:25 · retained source text

Saue now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperitie.

Isaiah 38:3
And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 38:3 · retained source text

And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I haue walked before thee in trueth, and with a perfect heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.

1611 marginal noteHebr. with great weeping.

Isaiah 64:9
¶ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 64:9 · retained source text

¶ Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquitie for euer: behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

1611 marginal notePsal.79.8.

Jeremiah 38:4
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 38:4 · retained source text

Therefore the princes sayd vnto the king, We beseech thee let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of warre that remaine in this citie, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words vnto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

1611 marginal noteHeb. peace.

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 38:20 · retained source text

But Ieremiah said, They shall not deliuer thee: obey, I beseech thee, the voyce of the LORD, which I speake vnto thee: so it shall be well vnto thee, and thy soule shall liue.

Jeremiah 42:2
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 42:2 · retained source text

And said vnto Ieremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for vs vnto the LORD thy God, euen for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eies do behold vs)

1611 marginal noteOr, let our supplication fall before thee.

Daniel 1:12
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 1:12 · retained source text

Proue thy seruants, I beseech thee, ten dayes, and let them giue pulse to eat, and water to drinke.

1611 marginal noteHebr. of pulse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. that we may eate, &c.

Daniel 9:16
¶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:16 · retained source text

¶ O LORD, according to all thy righteousnes, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy furie bee turned away from thy citie Ierusalem, thy holy Mountaine: because for our sinnes, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Ierusalem and thy people are become a reproch to all that are about vs.

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