Greek verb · G1871
ἐπαιτέω
epaiteoep-ahee-teh'-o
to ask besides.; to beg
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epaitéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1871is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1871
to ask for
The King James renders it: beg.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
epaiteo is rendered "to ask besides.; to beg". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to ask besides.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 16:3The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
Luke 16:3ἐπαιτεῖν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to ask besides., and to beg.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπαίρω | epairo | to lift up | Uses19 |
| ἔπαινος | epainos | praise | Uses11 |
| ἐπαισχύνομαι | epaischynomai | be ashamed of | Uses11 |
| ἐπαινέω | epaineo | to praise | Uses6 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπαιτεῖν1
- ἐπαιτῶν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Luke
two uses
The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
- ἐπαιτεῖνepaiteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to beg
As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.
- ἐπαιτῶνepaitonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: begging
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.