Genesis 32:29
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
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1 John 5:16
If 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.
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Genesis
22 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
43 verses
Joshua
33 verses
Judges
22 verses
1 Samuel
33 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
1 Kings
65 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
2 Chronicles
22 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Isaiah
54 verses
Jeremiah
88 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
1212 verses
Mark
77 verses
Luke
1312 verses
John
1716 verses
Acts
22 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
James
54 verses
1 John
44 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
שָׁאַל
shâʼal · shaw-al'
39 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
Strong's KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 32:29Strong's last: Zechariah 10:1
Open full H7592 profile →αἰτέω
aitéō · ahee-teh'-o
38 times translated as this KJV form71 total Strong's occurrences
to ask (in genitive case)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:8Strong's last: 1 John 5:16
Open full G154 profile →ἐρωτάω
erōtáō · er-o-tah'-o
11 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
to interrogate; by implication, to request
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:24Strong's last: John 16:30
Open full G2065 profile →ἐπερωτάω
eperōtáō · ep-er-o-tah'-o
8 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to ask for, i.e. inquire, seek
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask (after, questions), demand, desire, question.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 22:46Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:35
Open full G1905 profile →πυνθάνομαι
pynthánomai · poon-than'-om-ahee
2 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to question, i.e. ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of information merely; and thus differing from G2065, which properly means a request as a favor; and from G154, which is strictly a demand for something due; as well as from G2212, which implies a search for something hidden; and from G1189, which involves the idea of urgent need); by implication, to learn (by casual intelligence)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, demand, enquire, understand.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 13:24Strong's last: Acts 10:29
Open full G4441 profile →בְּעָא
bᵉʻâʼ · beh-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to seek or ask
Strong's KJV usage: ask, desire, make (petition), pray, request, seek.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:7Strong's last: Daniel 6:12
Open full H1156 profile →ἀπαιτέω
apaitéō · ap-ah'-ee-teh-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to demand back
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask again, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 6:30Strong's last: Luke 6:30
Open full G523 profile →ἐξετάζω
exetázō · ex-et-ad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to test thoroughly (by questions), i.e. ascertain or interrogate
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, enquire, search.
Strong's first: John 21:12Strong's last: John 21:12
Open full G1833 profile →בָּקַשׁ
bâqash · baw-kash'
1 times translated as this KJV form225 total Strong's occurrences
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Strong's KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 20:4Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 20:4
Open full H1245 profile →דָּרַשׁ
dârash · daw-rash'
1 times translated as this KJV form163 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
Strong's KJV usage: ask, × at all, care for, × diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-) mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 14:5Strong's last: 1 Kings 14:5
Open full H1875 profile →רָבָה
râbâh · raw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form227 total Strong's occurrences
to increase (in whatever respect)
Strong's KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 34:12Strong's last: Genesis 34:12
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H7592
And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
H7592
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
H7592
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
English meaning and historical usage.
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ask
'ASK, verb transitive [Gr. In former times, the English word was pronounced ax, as in the royal style of assenting to bills in Parliament. 'Be it as it is axed.']
1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; with of before the person to whom the request is made.
Ask counsel of God. Judges 18:5.
2. To require, expect or claim.
To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:48.
3. To interrogate, or inquire; to put a question, with a view to an answer.
He is of age, ask him. John 9:21.
4. To require, or make claim.
Ask me never so much dowry. Genesis 34:12. Daniel 2:10.
5. To claim, require or demand, as the price or value of a commodity; to set a price; as, what price do you ask?
6. To require, as physically necessary.
The exigence of a state asks a much longer time to conduct the design to maturity.
This sense is nearly or entirely obsolete; ask being superseded by require and demand.
7. To invite; as, to ask guests to a wedding or entertainment; ask my friend to step into the house.
'ASK, verb intransitive
1. To request or petition, followed by for; as, ask for bread; or without for.
Ask and it shall be given you. Matthew 7:7.
2. to inquire, or seek by request; sometimes followed by after.
Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? Genesis 32:29.
This verb can hardly be considered as strictly intransitive, for some person or object is always understood.
Ask is not equivalent to demand, claim, and require, at least, in modern usage; much less, is it equivalent to beg and beseech. The first three words, demand, claim, require, imply a right or supposed right in the person asking, to the thing requested; and beseech implies more urgency, than ask ask and request imply no right, but suppose the thing desired to be a favor. The French demander is correctly rendered by ask rather than by deman.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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