ἀπαιτέω
apaitéō · G523 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to ask back
To ask for something to be returned
ExamplesLuke 6:30 “Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.
Luke 12:20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is demanded of you; and as for all that you have prepared, who will own it now?’
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ψυχήlife, soul 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀπόfrom+ αἴρωto take up, to take away, to carry 1
- ἀπόfrom+ σύyou 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 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
- נָגַשׂ nâgas · H5065 · taskmaster, driver, ruler
- Greek ἀπαιτέω specifically denotes demanding back what was previously given or owed (return/repayment), while Hebrew נָגַשׂ covers the broader semantic field of exacting/extracting payment or labor through pressure, including tax collection and taskmaster oppression, without the 'back' component—the Greek term is narrower in focusing on reclamation, the Hebrew broader in encompassing various forms of economic/labor extraction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To ask back33.165
- In Luke 6:30, Jesus teaches, “whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back (apaítei),” describing a request for the return of one's own possession.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπαίτω; to ask back, demand back, exact something due (Sir. 20:15-14σήμερον δανειει καί…
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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