G4319

προσαιτέω

prosaiteōG:V

to beg

προσ-αιτέω, -ῶ [in LXX: Job.27:14 * ;] __1. to ask besides. __2. to continue asking; hence, to importune, beg, ask alms: Jhn.9:8.† (AS)

The KJV translates G4319 in the following manner:

begging (4x), begged (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

προσαιτέω — prosaitéō

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): Mar 10:46 R G L; Luk 18:35 (where L T Tr WH have ἐπαιτῶν); Joh 9:8.

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

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