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Strong’s G154 · Greek

αἰτέω

aitéō · ahee-teh'-o

Origin of uncertain derivation;

Meaning to ask (in genitive case)

In the King James Version ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require. Compare πυνθάνομαι (G4441).

In 68 verses of the King James Version

51–68 of 68

  1. Acts 13:21And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
  2. Acts 13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
  3. Acts 16:29Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
  4. Acts 25:3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
  5. Acts 25:15About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
  6. 1 Corinthians 1:22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
  7. Ephesians 3:13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
  8. Ephesians 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
  9. Colossians 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
  10. James 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  11. James 1:6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
  12. James 4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
  13. James 4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
  14. 1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
  15. 1 John 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
  16. 1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
  17. 1 John 5:15And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
  18. 1 John 5:16If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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