Quick Definition
ἐπαιτέω v. I beg, ask alms
Strong's Definition
from 1909 and 154; to ask for
KJV Usage: beg
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐπ-αιτέω, -ῶ ; 1. to ask besides, ask for more: Hom. Tl. 23, 593. 2. to ask again and again, importunately : Soph. Oed. Tyr. 1416; to beg, to ask alms: Lk. xvi. 3; (xviii. 35 LT Tr WH]; (Ps. eviii. (cix.) 10; Sir. xl. 28; Soph. Oed. Col. 1364).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐπαιτέω epaiteō 2x
to prefer a suit or request in respect of certain circumstances; to ask alms, beg, Lk. 16:3; 18:35*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐπ-αιτέω, -ῶ, [in LXX: Ps 108 (109):10 (H7592) Si 40:28 * ;] to ask besides.
to beg (as a mendicant; cf. MM, Exp., xiv): Lk 16:3 18:35 (Cremer, 74).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐπαιτέω. In P Lond 244 (B.c. 163) (= I. p. 32) a recluse at the Serapeum describes himself as living—ad@’ ὧν ἐπαιτῶ ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι, ‘from what I beg in the temple”: cf. Lk 16% ématτεῖν αἰσχύνομαι. That temples generally were a promising haunt for the profession Luke reminds us elsewhere. ᾿Εἰπήτρια, the Greek for a ‘‘ beggaress”’—to parallel it with an equal novelty—appears as a Gam. eip. in P Par 591° (8.6, 160) ( = Witkowski,? p. 76, where see note): cf. ἀγύρτρια , , ἐπακολουθεω (Aesch. Ag. 1273), δέκτρια (Archil. 8). The pass. of the verb is found in P Tebt I, 2618 (B.c. 114) πρὸς πῆι (1. τῆι) ἐπιδόσει τῶν ἐπαιτουμένων λόγων, ‘‘for the delivery of the accounts which were required”’ (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐπαιτέω (epaiteō) — to ask/beg. ἐπαιτ-έω, ask besides, εἰ καί νύ κεν.. ἄλλο μεῖζον ἐπαιτήσειας [Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, ask for more, φαγὼν ἔτ᾽ ἐπῄτεον [Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—so in middle, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. beg as a mendicant, ἄλλους ἐ. τὸν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν βίον [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. simply, demand, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]