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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #4319 - προσαιτέω

Transliteration

prosaitéō

Phonetics

pros-ahee-teh'-o

Root Word (Etymology)

from (G4314) and (G154)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to ask for in addition
to approach one with supplications
to ask alms

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 5927 ‑ עָלָה (aw‑law');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (3)

Mark 1

Luke 1

John 1

HCS (0)

HCS (3)

Mark 1

John 2

BSB (3)

Mark 1

John 2

ESV (2)

Mark 1

John 1

WEB (3)

Mark 1

Luke 1

John 1

KJV (3)

begged 1

begging 2

HCS (0)

HCS (3)

a beggar 1

beggar 1

begging 1

BSB (3)

beg 1

beggar 1

begging 1

ESV (2)

beg 1

beggar 1

WEB (3)

beggar 1

begged 1

begging 1

RAH

V-FAI3P 1

ANT

V-PAP-NSM 3

BEZ

V-PAP-NSM 3

BGB

N-NMS 2

V-PPA-NMS 1

BMT

V-PAP-NSM 3

BYZ

V-PAP-NSM 3

ELZ

V-PAP-NSM 3

NA26

V-PAPNSM 1

SBL

N-NSM 2

V-PAPNSM 1

SCV

V-PAP-NSM 3

STV

V-PAP-NSM 3

TIS

N-NSM 2

V-PAP-NSM 1

V-PAP-NSM 3

N-NSM 2

V-PAP-NSM 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

προσαιτ-έω,

ask besides, οὐδέν Pi. Fr. 177.6; αἷμα π. demand more blood, A. Ch. 401 (anap.); π. μισθόν demand higher pay, X. An. 1.3.21 .

2. demand or require for a purpose, ὅσους . . τὰ ἔργα προσαιτοίη Id. Vect. 4.39 .

II ask as well as others (sc. for a share), and so, c. acc. pers., ask an alms of, Hdt. 3.14, Isoc. 7.83, etc.: c. acc. rei, beg for a thing, βίοτον, στρατιάν, E. Hel. 791, Ar. Lys. 1141: c. dupl. acc., beg somewhat of one, E. Hel. 512, X. An. 7.3.31: c. gen., beg some of . ., Plu. Alc. 4: abs., to be importunate, E. Supp. 64 (lyr.), Ar. Ach. 429, 452; to be a beggar, Pl. Smp. 203b, PCair.Zen. 493.6 (iii B.C.), prob. in Plu. 2.294a.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

προσαιτέω, προσαίτω;

1. to ask for in addition ((see πρός, IV. 2); Pindar, Aeschylus, others).

2. to approach one with supplications (German anbetteln (to importune; cf. πρός, IV. 4)), to ask alms ((Herodotus), Xenophon, Aristophanes, Euripides, Plutarch, others): Mark 10:46 R G L; Luke 18:35 (where L T Tr WH have ἐπαιτῶν); John 9:8.

STRONGS NT 4319a: προσαίτης προσαίτης, προσαιτου, ὁ, a beggar: Mark 10:46 T Tr WH; John 9:8 (where for the Rec. τυφλός). (Plutarch, Lucian, (Diogenes Laërtius 6, 56.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

προσ -αιτέω , -ῶ ,

[in LXX: Job 27:14*;]

1. to ask besides.

2. to continue asking; hence, to importune, beg, ask alms: John 9:8.†

*† προσαίτης , -ου , ὁ ,

a beggar: Mark 10:46, John 9:8.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";a little wing,"; hence ";gable,"; ";pinnacle"; (Matthew 4:5, Luke 4:9) For πτερυγοειδῶς, ";in the form of a wing,"; in the technical language of magic, see Deissmann LAE p. 453 n..1

List of Word Forms

προσαιτης προσαίτης προσαιτήσουσιν προσαιτων προσαιτών προσαιτῶν prosaites prosaitēs prosaítes prosaítēs prosaiton prosaitôn prosaitōn prosaitō̂n