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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)
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - and said, “Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please, is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - Then he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?” And they said, “There was no harlot in this place.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - But they said, “The man asked us pointedly about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly have known that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by 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 desolate height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet[fn] the LORD over there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - “He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire before the LORD for him by the judgment of the Urim. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him—all the congregation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - “or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:14 - Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions; but they did not ask counsel of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, “Who shall be first to go up for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth and interrogated him; and he wrote down for him the leaders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - So they said to him, “Please inquire of God, that we may know whether the journey on which we go will be prosperous.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - Then the children of Israel arose and went up to the house of God[fn] to inquire of God. They said, “Which of us shall go up first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” The LORD said, “Judah first!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - Then the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, “Shall I again draw near for battle against the children of my brother Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:27 - So the children of Israel inquired of the LORD (the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD answered, “There he is, hidden among the equipment.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:37 - So Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But He did not answer him that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines, and save Keilah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6 - And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:16 - Then Samuel said: “So why do you ask me, seeing the LORD has departed from you and has become your enemy?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 - It happened after this that David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up to any of the cities of Judah?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up.” David said, “Where shall I go up?” And He said, “To Hebron.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - Therefore David inquired of the LORD, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you.” And the woman said, “Please, let my lord the king speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:23 - Now the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the advice of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - So she spoke, saying, “They used to talk in former times, saying, ‘They shall surely seek guidance at Abel,’ and so they would end disputes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:5 - Also Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire for the word of the LORD today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:7 - And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of Him?”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:13 - So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - “For inquire, please, of the former age,
And consider the things discovered by their fathers;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 - “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 - For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 - Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace;
When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Do not say,
“Why were the former days better than these?”
For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:3 - The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will consult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - Who walk to go down to Egypt,
And have not asked My advice,
To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 - “I was sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
To a nation that was not called by My name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:14

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 chastisement of a cruel one,
For the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the LORD will answer him by Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - “And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:1 - It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:3 - “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’

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