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Lexicon :: Strong's G2065 - erōtaō

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ἐρωτάω
Transliteration
erōtaō (Key)
Pronunciation
er-o-tah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
63x in 21 unique form(s) TR
58x in 23 unique form(s) LXX
61x in 29 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:685,262

Trench's Synonyms: xl. αἰτέω, ἐρωτάω.

Strong’s Definitions

ἐρωτάω erōtáō, er-o-tah'-o; apparently from G2046 (compare G2045); to interrogate; by implication, to request:—ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray. Compare G4441.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's G2065 in the following manner: ask (23x), beseech (14x), pray (14x), desire (6x), intreat (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's G2065 in the following manner: ask (23x), beseech (14x), pray (14x), desire (6x), intreat (1x).

  1. to question

  2. to ask

    1. to request, entreat, beg, beseech

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐρωτάω erōtáō, er-o-tah'-o; apparently from G2046 (compare G2045); to interrogate; by implication, to request:—ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray. Compare G4441.
STRONGS G2065:
ἐρωτάω, ἐρωτῶ ((infinitive ἐρωτᾶν L T Tr, ἐρωτᾶν R G WH; see Iota); imperfect 3 person plural ἠρώτων and (in Matthew 15:23 L T Tr WH, Mark 4:10 Tdf.) ἠρώτουν, cf. Buttmann, 44 (38); (Winers Grammar, 85 (82); Tdf. Proleg., p. 122; Sophocles Lexicon, p. 41; WHs Appendix, p. 166; Mullach, Griech. Vulgarspr., p. 252); future ἐρωτήσω; 1 aorist ἠρώτησα; the Sept. for שָׁאַל; to ask, i. e.:
1. as in Greek writings from Homer down to question: absolutely, Luke 22:68; John 8:7 (R); τινα, John 9:21; John 16:19, 30; (John 18:21 where Rec. ἐπερωτᾷς), etc.; with the addition of λέγων and the words of the questioner: Matthew 16:13; Luke 19:31 (om. λέγων; Luke 23:3 T Tr WH); John 1:19, 21; John 5:12; John 9:19; John 16:5; τινα τί (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 4 a.), Matthew 21:24; Mark 4:10; Luke 20:3; John 16:23 (others refer this to 2); τινα περί τίνος, Luke 9:45 (Lachmann, ἐπερωτῆσαι); John 18:19.
2. to ask i. e. to request, entreat, beg, beseech, after the Hebrew שָׁאַל, in a sense very rare in secular authors (Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 14 (but here the text is uncertain; substitute Antiquities 7, 8, 1; cf. Dr. Ezra Abbot in No. American Rev. for 1872, p. 173 note); Babrius fab. (42, 3); 97, 3; Apoll. synt., p. 289, 20; cf. Winer's Grammar, pp. 30 and 32): τινα, John 14:16; with the addition of λέγων and the words of the asker, Matthew 15:23; John 12:21; followed by imperative alone (Buttmann, 272f (234)), Luke 14:18; Philippians 4:3; followed by ἵνα (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 44, 8 a.; R. 237 (204)), Mark 7:26; Luke 7:36; Luke 16:27; John 4:47; John 17:15; John 19:31, 38; 2 John 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; by ὅπως, Luke 7:3; Luke 11:37; Acts 23:20; by the infinitive (Buttmann, 258 (222); cf. Winer's Grammar, 335 (315)), Luke 5:3; Luke 8:37; John 4:40; Acts 3:3; Acts 10:48; Acts 23:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; τινα περί τίνος, Luke 4:38; John 16:9, 20; 1 John 5:16; ὑπέρ τίνος (followed by εἰς with an infinitive; cf. Buttmann, 265 (228)), 2 Thessalonians 2:1f; ἐρωτᾶν τά (WH text omits τά) πρός εἰρήνην (see εἰρήνη, 1), Luke 14:32. (Synonym: see αἰτέω, at the end. Compare: διερωτάω, ἐπερωτάω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
15:23; 15:23; 16:13; 21:24
Mark
4:10; 4:10; 7:26
Luke
4:38; 5:3; 7:3; 7:36; 8:37; 9:45; 11:37; 14:18; 14:32; 16:27; 19:31; 20:3; 22:68; 23:3
John
1:19; 1:21; 4:40; 4:47; 5:12; 8:7; 9:19; 9:21; 12:21; 14:16; 16:5; 16:9; 16:19; 16:20; 16:23; 16:30; 17:15; 18:19; 18:21; 19:31; 19:38
Acts
3:3; 10:48; 23:18; 23:20
Philippians
4:3
1 Thessalonians
4:1; 5:12
2 Thessalonians
2:1
1 John
5:16
2 John
1:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2065 matches the Greek ἐρωτάω (erōtaō),
which occurs 28 times in 26 verses in 'Jhn' in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:19 - This is Yochanan's testimony, when the Yehudim sent Kohanim and Levites from Yerushalayim to ask him, "Who are you?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:21 - They asked him, "What then? Are you Eliyah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:25 - They asked him, "Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah, nor Eliyah, nor the Prophet?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:31 - In the meanwhile, the talmidim urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:40 - So when the Shomroni came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:47 - When he heard that Yeshua had come out of Yehudah into the Galil, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:12 - Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:7 - But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:2 - His talmidim asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:15 - Again therefore the Perushim also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:19 - and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:21 - but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:21 - These, therefore, came to Pilipos, who was from Beit-Tzaidah of the Galil, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Yeshua."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:16 - I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, --

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:5 - But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:19 - Therefore Yeshua perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:23 - "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:26 - In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:30 - Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:9 - I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:15 - I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:20 - Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:19 - The Kohen Gadol therefore asked Yeshua about his talmidim, and about his teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:21 - Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:31 - Therefore the Yehudim, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:38 - After these things, Yosef of Ramatayim, being a talmid of Yeshua, but secretly for fear of the Yehudim, asked of Pilate that he might take away Yeshua's body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
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