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G0154αἰτέωaiteō
to askPart of speech: Greek Verb
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Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
αἰτοῦντί aitounti “asking”
Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
αἰτῆσαι aitēsai “asking”
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Αἰτεῖτε, Aiteite “do ask”
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
αἰτῶν aitōn “is asking”
Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
αἰτήσει aitēsei “he will ask for”
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
αἰτήσει, aitēsei “he will ask for,”
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
αἰτοῦσιν aitousin “asking”
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.
αἰτήσηται. aitēsētai “she shall ask.”
Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
αἰτήσωνται, aitēsōntai “they shall ask,”
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
αἰτοῦσά aitousa “asking”
But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
αἰτεῖσθε. aiteisthe “you ask for.”
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
αἰτήσητε aitēsēte “you shall ask”
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
αἰτήσωνται aitēsōntai “they may ask for”
This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
ᾐτήσατο ētēsato “asked for”
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."
αἴτησόν aitēson “do ask”
He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."
αἰτήσῃς aitēsēs “you shall ask”
She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
αἰτήσωμαι; aitēsōmai “shall I ask for myself?”
She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."
ᾐτήσατο ētēsato “she asked”
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
αἰτήσωμέν aitēsōmen “we shall ask”
But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
αἰτεῖσθε. aiteisthe “you ask.”
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
αἰτεῖσθε, aiteisthe “you ask,”
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
αἰτεῖσθαι aiteisthai “to beg [him to do]”
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
ᾐτήσατο ētēsato “asked for”
He asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, "His name is John." They all marveled.
αἰτήσας aitēsas “having asked for”
Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
αἰτοῦντί aitounti “is asking”