Genesis 32:17
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
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Asketh
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1 Peter 3:15
But 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:
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αἰτέω
aitéō · ahee-teh'-o
5 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.
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Strong's first: Matthew 5:42Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:15
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shâʼal · shaw-al'
3 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.
Strong's first: Exodus 13:14Strong's last: Micah 7:3
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erōtáō · er-o-tah'-o
1 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.
Strong's first: John 16:5Strong's last: John 16:5
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H7592
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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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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