'Yearn' in the Bible

And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Seek the Lord and His strength;Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence].

He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek and worship and honor the Lord.

They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

everyone who sets his heart to seek God—the Lord God of his fathers—even though it is not in accordance with the [ceremonial] purification [rules] of the sanctuary.”

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young (sixteen), he began to seek after and inquire of the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and cast images.

For Ezra had set his heart (resolved) to study and interpret the Law of the Lord, and to practice it and teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

“[Then] You will call, and I will answer You;You will long for [me] the work of Your hands.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him;All his thoughts are, “There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment].”

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

I long and yearnfor the courts of the Lord;my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.

But as for the land to which they long to return, they will not return to it.

"Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? Indeed, as often as I've spoken about him, I surely still remember him. Therefore I deeply yearn for him. I'll surely have great compassion on him," declares the LORD.

“I will gather those [Israelites in captivity] who grieve about the appointed feasts—They came from you, [O Zion];On whom the reproach [of exile] is a burden.

For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our [immortal, eternal] celestial dwelling,

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.

Therefore, my fellow believers, whom I love and long for, my delight and crown [my wreath of victory], in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

and as I recall your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.