To SEARCH OUT — to prospect, to reconnoitre a country, to examine a legal case; the noun cheqer is the bottom of a thing, what you reach when you have searched it all. ⚠ It brackets Psalm 139, occurring exactly twice: 'you have SEARCHED me' (v1) and 'SEARCH me' (v23) — and what sits between them is the psalm's request that God kill the wicked and its declaration of complete hatred. Read as a bracket, the closing request submits that declaration to examination rather than changing the subject. → first discussed at Psalms 139:1