'Searching' in the Bible

"Now whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find [it].

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

but believing him to be in the group of travelers, they went a day's journey. And they began searching for him among [their] relatives and [their] acquaintances,

And [when they] saw him, they were astounded and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you done this to us? Look, your father and I have been searching for you anxiously!"

And he said to them, "{Why} were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary [for] me to be in the [house] of my Father?"

"Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find [it]. It says, 'I will return to my house from which I came out.'

What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained [it], and the rest were hardened,