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Lexicon :: Strong's G1905 - eperōtaō

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ἐπερωτάω
Transliteration
eperōtaō (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-er-o-tah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
56x in 15 unique form(s)
TR
59x in 18 unique form(s)
LXX
58x in 20 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:687,262

Strong’s Definitions

ἐπερωτάω eperōtáō, ep-er-o-tah'-o; from G1909 and G2065; to ask for, i.e. inquire, seek:—ask (after, questions), demand, desire, question.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x

The KJV translates Strong's G1905 in the following manner: ask (53x), demand (2x), desire (1x), ask question (1x), question (1x), ask after (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x
The KJV translates Strong's G1905 in the following manner: ask (53x), demand (2x), desire (1x), ask question (1x), question (1x), ask after (1x).
  1. to accost one with an enquiry, put a question to, enquiry of, ask, interrogate

  2. to address one with a request or demand

    1. to ask of or demand of one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐπερωτάω eperōtáō, ep-er-o-tah'-o; from G1909 and G2065; to ask for, i.e. inquire, seek:—ask (after, questions), demand, desire, question.
STRONGS G1905:
ἐπερωτάω, ἐπερωτῶ; imperfect ἐπηρώτων; future ἐπερωτήσω; 1 aorist ἐπηρώτησα; 1 aorist passive participle ἐπερωτηθείς; the Sept. mostly for שָׁאַל, sometimes for דָּרַשׁ;
1. to accost one with an inquiry, put a question to, inquire of, ask, interrogate (ἐπί directive, uniformly in the N. T.; Meyer on Mark 11:29 (cf. ἐπί, D. 2)): τινα, Mark 9:32; Mark 12:34; Matthew 22:46; Luke 2:46; 1 Corinthians 14:35; John 18:21 R G; τινα τί, ask one anything, Mark 7:17 L T Tr WH; Mark 11:29; Luke 20:40; τινα περί τίνος, one about a thing, Mark 7:17 R G; (Luke 9:45 Lachmann) (Herodotus 1, 32; Demosthenes 1072, 12); followed by λέγων with the words used by the questioner, Matthew 12:10; Matthew 17:10; Mark 9:11; Mark 12:18; Luke 3:10, 14; Luke 20:27; Luke 23:3 (R G L), and often in the Synoptic Gospels; followed by εἰ, whether, Mark 8:23; Mark 15:44; Luke 23:6; or some other form of the indirect question, Acts 23:34; ἐπηρώτων λέγοντες (L T Tr WH omit λέγοντες), τίς εἴη, Luke 8:9; ἐπερωτᾶν Θεόν to consult God (Numbers 23:3; Joshua 9:20 (14); Judges 1:1; Judges 18:5; Isaiah 19:3, etc.; Thucydides 1, 118 (etc.)), hence, to seek to know God's purpose and to do his will, Romans 10:20 from Isaiah 65:1.
2. by a usage foreign to the Greeks, to address one with a request or demand; to ask of or demand of one: followed by the infinitive Matthew 16:1 (so ἐπερωτᾶν τινα τί, Hebrew שָׁאַל, in Psalm 136:3 (Ps. 137:3); (this sense is disputed by some; see Zezschwitz as referred to at end of next word; cf. Weiss on Matthew, the passage cited, and see ἐρωτάω, 2)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
23:3
Joshua
9:20
Judges
1:1; 18:5
Psalms
136:3; 137:3
Isaiah
19:3; 65:1
Matthew
12:10; 16:1; 17:10; 22:46
Mark
7:17; 7:17; 8:23; 9:11; 9:32; 11:29; 11:29; 12:18; 12:34; 15:44
Luke
2:46; 3:10; 3:14; 8:9; 9:45; 20:27; 20:40; 23:3; 23:6
John
18:21
Acts
23:34
Romans
10:20
1 Corinthians
14:35

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1905 matches the Greek ἐπερωτάω (eperōtaō),
which occurs 58 times in 58 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 24:23–Eze 20:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - and he said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to stay overnight at your father’s house?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking,[fn]the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the people of her place, saying, “Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no temple prostitute here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - But they said, “The man specifically asked about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ So we [fn]answered his questions. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - Then he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - “Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his [fn]command they shall go out, and at his [fn]command they shall come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, all the congregation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 -

“Indeed, ask now about the earlier days that were [fn]before your time, since the day that God created [fn]mankind on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 -

“Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of all generations.

Ask your father and he will inform you,

Your elders, and they will tell you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:14 - So the men of Israel took some of their provisions, and did not ask for the [fn]counsel of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 -

Now it came about after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel inquired of the LORD, saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And he captured a youth from [fn]Succoth and questioned him. Then the youth wrote down for him the leaders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - Then they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be successful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 -

Now the sons of Israel set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, “Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?” Then the LORD said, “Judah shall go up first.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - And the sons of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall we again advance for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:27 - And the sons of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Previously in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he used to say, “Come, and let’s go to the seer”; for he who is called a prophet now was previously called a seer.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - Therefore they inquired further of the LORD: “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD said, “Behold, he is hiding himself among the baggage.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:37 - So Saul inquired of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You hand them over to Israel?” But He did not answer him on that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and [fn]attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and [fn]attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6 - So Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either in dreams, or by the Urim, or by the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:16 - Samuel said, “But why ask me, since the LORD has abandoned you and has become your enemy?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - And David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I pursue this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?” And He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue everyone.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 -

Then it came about afterward that David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up.” So David said, “Where shall I go up?” And He said, “To Hebron.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - So David inquired of the LORD, but He said, “You shall not go directly up; circle around behind them and come at them in front of the baka-shrubs.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah came to him, David asked about Joab’s well-being and [fn]that of the people, and the condition of the war.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 -

Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king please speak.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:23 - Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he [fn]gave in those days, was taken as though one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - Then she spoke, saying, “In the past they used to say, ‘They will undoubtedly ask advice at Abel,’ and that is how they ended a dispute.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:5 -

However, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please request the word of the LORD [fn]first.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no longer a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of him?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy anything good regarding me, but only bad. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say so.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell through the window lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - When the king asked the woman, she told everything to him. So the king appointed an officer for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 -

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of her,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 -

“Please inquire of past generations,

And consider the things searched out by their fathers.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 -

“But just ask the animals, and have them teach you;

And the birds of the sky, and have them tell you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 -

For there our captors [fn]demanded of us [fn]songs,

And our tormentors, jubilation, saying,

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 -

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise;

When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 -

Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”

For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:3 -

“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;

And I will confuse their strategy,

So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead,

And to [fn]mediums and spiritists.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 -

Who proceed down to Egypt

Without consulting [fn]Me,

To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh,

And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 -

“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;

I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.

I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’

To a nation which did not call on My name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Please inquire of the LORD in our behalf, because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us in accordance with all His [fn]wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 -

‘All your lovers have forgotten you,

They do not seek you;

For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,

With the punishment of a cruel one,

Because your wrongdoing is great,

And your sins are numerous.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who reside in Israel, who deserts Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts in front of his face the stumbling block of his wrongdoing, and then comes to the prophet to request something of Me for himself, I the LORD will let Myself answer him Myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - “And they will bear the punishment for their wrongdoing; as the wrongdoing of the inquirer is, so the wrongdoing of the prophet will be,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 -

Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, men from the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat before me.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:3 - “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “Do you yourselves come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I certainly will not be inquired of by you.”’

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