αἴτημα
aítēma · G155 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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request, demand, what was being asked for
(Derivative of αἰτέω ‘to ask for,’) That which is being asked for
ExamplesLuke 23:24 And so Pilate decided to have their demand carried out.
Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
1 John 5:15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- σύyou 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αἰτέωto ask for, to demand, to plead for 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
- γνωρίζωto make known, to know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שְׁאֵלָה shᵉʼêlâh · H7596 · request, decision, verdict
- Greek αἴτημα (aítēma, G155) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew שְׁאֵלָה (shᵉʼêlâh, H7596), both denoting a formal request or petition, particularly in contexts of asking from authority or deity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Request, demand, what was being asked for33.164
- In Philippians 4:6, believers are told to make “your requests” known to God through prayer, where aítēma names the concrete content of what is asked for, not the act of asking itself.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (τος, τό (αἰτέω) (from Plato down), what is or has been asked for: Lk 23:24; plural (A.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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