προσαιτέω
prosaitéō · G4319 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to beg
To ask for charity
ExamplesJohn 9:8 So the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is this not the one who used to sit and beg?”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Beggar33.174
- The verb, used substantivally, names a person who habitually asks for charity. Mark's account of blind Bartimaeus uses this term: “Then they came to Jericho. And later, as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a beggar who was blind named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road” (Mark 10:46).
- To beg33.173
- The same verb, in its ordinary verbal form, describes asking repeatedly for charity. John's account of the man born blind uses this term: “So the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, 'Is this not the one who used to sit and beg?'” (John 9:8).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσαίτω; 1. to ask for in addition ((see πρός, IV. 2); Pindar, Aeschylus, others). 2. to…
1. to ask for in addition ((see πρός, IV. 2); Pindar, Aeschylus, others).
2. to approach one with supplications (German anbetteln (to importune; cf. πρός, IV. 4)), to ask alms ((Herodotus), Xenophon, Aristophanes, Euripides, Plutarch, others): Mk 10:46 R G L; Lk 18:35 (where L T Tr WH have ἐπαιτῶν); Jn 9:8.
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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