4319. prosaiteo

Lexicon

prosaiteo: To beg, to ask for alms

Original Word: προσαιτέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: prosaiteo
Pronunciation: pros-ahee-TEH-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ahee-teh'-o)
KJV: beg
Word Origin: [from G4314 (πρός - against) and G154 (αἰτέω - ask)]

1. to ask repeatedly (importune), i.e. solicit

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

beg.

From pros and aiteo; to ask repeatedly (importune), i.e. Solicit -- beg.

see GREEK pros

see GREEK aiteo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4319: προσαιτέω

προσαιτέω, προσαίτω;

1. to ask for in addition ((see πρός, IV. 2); Pindar, Aeschylus, others).

2. to approach one with supplications (German anbetteln (to importune; cf. πρός, IV. 4)), to ask alms ((Herodotus), Xenophon, Aristophanes, Euripides, Plutarch, others): Mark 10:46 R G L; Luke 18:35 (where L T Tr WH have ἐπαιτῶν); John 9:8.

STRONGS NT 4319a: προσαίτηςπροσαίτης, προσαιτου, ὁ, a beggar: Mark 10:46 T Tr WH; John 9:8 (where for the Rec. τυφλός). (Plutarch, Lucian, (Diogenes Laërtius 6, 56.)

Forms and Transliterations

προσαιτης προσαίτης προσαιτήσουσιν προσαιτων προσαιτών προσαιτῶν prosaites prosaitēs prosaítes prosaítēs prosaiton prosaitôn prosaitōn prosaitō̂n

Englishman's Concordance

Mark 10:46 N-NMS
GRK: Βαρτίμαιος τυφλὸς προσαίτης ἐκάθητο παρὰ
KJV: by the highway side begging.
INT: Bartimaeus blind beggar was sitting beside

John 9:8 N-NMS
GRK: πρότερον ὅτι προσαίτης ἦν ἔλεγον
NAS: saw him as a beggar, were saying,
KJV: he that sat and begged?
INT: before that a beggar he was said

John 9:8 V-PPA-NMS
GRK: καθήμενος καὶ προσαιτῶν
INT: was sitting and begging

Strong's Greek 4319
3 Occurrences

προσαίτης — 2 Occ.
προσαιτῶν — 1 Occ.