Greek verb · G2925
κρούω
krouokroo'-o
to knock
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kroúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2925is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2925
to rap
The King James renders it: knock.
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
krouo is rendered "to knock". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7κρούετε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- knocking3
- do knock2
- having knocked1
- knock1
- to knock1
- When was knocking1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- κρούετε2
- κρούοντι2
- κρούσαντος2
- κρούειν1
- κρούω1
- κρούων1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2V-AAP-GSM
- verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural2V-PAM-2P
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2V-PAP-DSM
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PAI-1S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Matthew
two uses
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- κρούετεkroueteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do knock
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- κρούοντιkrouontiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: knocking
Luke
four uses
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- κρούετεkroueteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do knock
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- κρούοντιkrouontiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: knocking
Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.
- κρούσαντοςkrousantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: having knocked
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
- κρούεινkroueinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to knock
Acts
two uses
He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
- κρούσαντοςkrousantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: When was knocking
But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.
- κρούωνkrouonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: knocking
Revelation
one use
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
- κρούωkrouoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: knock
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.