Vocabulary Form
αἰτέω
Definition

I ask, demand

Erasmian
Modern
Root
αἰτε
Frequency
70
GK
160
Forms
αἰτήσω, ᾔτησα, ᾔτηκα, ᾔτημαι, -
Mnemonic Singing

I ask the Savior to help you,
comfort, strengthen and keep you.
He is willing to aid you;
He will carry you through.

Song

Biblical Concordance

Luke 11:9 “So to you I say, ask (aiteite | αἰτεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl) and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.
Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks (aitōn | αἰτῶν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) receives, and everyone who seeks finds, and for everyone who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 11:11 What father among you, should his son ask (aitēsei | αἰτήσει | fut act ind 3 sg) for a fish, will instead of a fish, give him a snake?
Luke 11:12 Or should he ask (aitēsei | αἰτήσει | fut act ind 3 sg) for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask (aitousin | αἰτοῦσιν | pres act ptcp dat pl masc) him!”
Luke 12:48 But the one who did not know, and did things worthy of blows, will be beaten with few blows. Everyone to whom much was given, much will be required from him, and to whom much was handed over, they (aitēsousin | αἰτήσουσιν | fut act ind 3 pl) will (aitēsousin | αἰτήσουσιν | fut act ind 3 pl) ask (aitēsousin | αἰτήσουσιν | fut act ind 3 pl) more of him.
Luke 23:23 But they were insistent, demanding (aitoumenoi | αἰτούμενοι | pres mid ptcp nom pl masc) with loud cries that he should be crucified, and their cries prevailed.
Luke 23:25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for (ētounto | ᾐτοῦντο | imperf mid ind 3 pl) whom they asked (ētounto | ᾐτοῦντο | imperf mid ind 3 pl), but he handed over Jesus to their will.
Luke 23:52 This man went to Pilate and asked (ētēsato | ᾐτήσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) for the body of Jesus;
John 4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, are (aiteis | αἰτεῖς | pres act ind 2 sg) asking (aiteis | αἰτεῖς | pres act ind 2 sg) for (aiteis | αἰτεῖς | pres act ind 2 sg) a drink from me, a woman from Samaria?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, saying, “If you had known the gift of God and who it was that said to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked (ētēsas | ᾔτησας | aor act ind 2 sg) him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 11:22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask (aitēsē | αἰτήσῃ | aor mid subj 2 sg) of him.”
John 14:13 And whatever you ask (aitēsēte | αἰτήσητε | aor act subj 2 pl) in my name I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 If you (aitēsēte | αἰτήσητε | aor act subj 2 pl) ask (aitēsēte | αἰτήσητε | aor act subj 2 pl) me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 15:7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask (aitēsasthe | αἰτήσασθε | aor mid imperative 2 pl) whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that the Father may give you whatever you ask (aitēsēte | αἰτήσητε | aor act subj 2 pl) in my name.
John 16:23 On that day you will question me about nothing. I tell you the solemn truth: whatever you ask (aitēsēte | αἰτήσητε | aor act subj 2 pl) of the Father in my name he will give to you.
John 16:24 Up till now you have asked (ētēsate | ᾐτήσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) for nothing in my name. Ask (aiteite | αἰτεῖτε | pres act imperative 2 pl), and you will receive, that your joy may be complete.
John 16:26 In that day you (aitēsesthe | αἰτήσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) will (aitēsesthe | αἰτήσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) ask (aitēsesthe | αἰτήσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) in my name. I am not saying to you that I will intercede with the Father on your behalf;
Acts 3:2 And a man lame from the womb of his mother was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple called the “Beautiful Gate” to ask (aitein | αἰτεῖν | pres act inf ) alms from those entering into the temple.
Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked (ētēsasthe | ᾐτήσασθε | aor mid ind 2 pl) that a man who was a murderer be released to you,
Acts 7:46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked (ētēsato | ᾐτήσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
Acts 9:2 and requested (ētēsato | ᾐτήσατο | aor mid ind 3 sg) from him letters to Damascus addressed to the synagogues, that if he found any who were of the Way, men or women, he should bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 12:20 Now Herod was very angry with the Tyrinians and the Sidonians, and with one accord they came to him and when they had persuaded Blastus, who was in charge of the bed-chamber of the king, they asked (ētounto | ᾐτοῦντο | imperf mid ind 3 pl) for peace because their country’s food-supply was provided by the king’s country.
Acts 13:21 Then they asked (ētēsanto | ᾐτήσαντο | aor mid ind 3 pl) for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.