Word

κρούω

kroúō · G2925 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

to knock

To knock on a door, as a means of signaling one’s presence to those inside

Examples
Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:8 “For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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

Who or what does itSubject

9 occurrences in 6 groups

Not stated (participle) 3
Not stated: you (more than one) 2
ΠέτροςPeter 1
αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

θύραdoor 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄρχωto be first 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀνοίγωto open 2

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 knock19.12: κρούω describes knocking, particularly on a door. Matthew 7:7 has Jesus teaching, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,” the κρούετε naming this knocking that receives an answer.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist participle κρουσας; to knock: τήν θύραν, to knock at the door, Lk 13:25; Acts…

1 aorist participle κρουσας; to knock: τήν θύραν, to knock at the door, Lk 13:25; Acts 12:13 (Aristophanes eccles. 317, 990; Xenophon, symp. 1, 11; Plato, Prot., p. 310 a.; 314 d.; symp. 212 c.; but κόπτειν τήν θύραν is better, according to Phryn. with whom Lobeck agrees, p. 177 (cf. Schmidt (chapter 113, 9), who makes κόπτειν to knock with a heavy blow, κρούειν to knock with the knuckles)); without τήν θύραν (cf. Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)), Mt 7:7; Lk 11:9, Lk 11:10; Lk 12:36; Acts 12:16; Rev 3:20 (on which see θύρα, c. ἐ.).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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