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ἐπαιτέω

epaitéō · G1871 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to beg

    To ask for charity

    Examples

    Luke 16:3 “And the manager said to himself, ‘What am I to do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

    Luke 18:35 Now as Jesus was approaching Jericho, a man who was blind was sitting by the road, begging.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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2 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To beg33.173
This verb describes asking for alms or charity, used of the unjust manager in Jesus' parable admitting he is ashamed to beg — "I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg" (Luke 16:3), and of the blind man begging by the road near Jericho — "a man who was blind was sitting by the road, begging" (Luke 18:35).
Word family 13 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

αἰτέω aitéō · G154 · to ask for, to demand, to plead for · 70×αἰτία aitía · G156 · reason, cause, source · 20×παραιτέομαι paraitéomai · G3868 · to ask for, to demand, to plead for · 12×αἴτιος aítios · G159 · causative, i.e. a causer · 5×αἴτημα aítēma · G155 · request, demand, what was being asked for · 3×προσαιτέω prosaitéō · G4319 · to beg · 3×ἀναίτιος anaítios · G338 · guiltless, innocent · 2×ἀπαιτέω apaitéō · G523 · to ask back · 2×ἐπαιτέωepaitéō · G1871αἰτίαμα aitíama · G157 · accusation, charge, complaint · 1×ἐξαιτέομαι exaitéomai · G1809 · to ask for with success, to ask and to receive · 1×προαιτιάομαι proaitiáomai · G4256 · to accuse previously · 1×αἴτιον aítion · G158 · reason, cause, source · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπαίτω; 1. to ask besides, ask for more: Homer, Iliad 23, 593. 2. to ask again and again,…
ἐπαίτω;
1. to ask besides, ask for more: Homer, Iliad 23, 593.
2. to ask again and again, importunately: Sophocles Oed. Tyr. 1416; to beg, to ask alms: Lk 16:3; (Lk 18:35 L T Tr WH); (Ps 108:10; Sir. 40:28; Sophocles Oed. Col. 1364).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Ask For, Request2 occurrences

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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