Quick Definition
I beg
Strong's Definition
to ask repeatedly (importune), i.e. solicit
Derivation: from G4314 (πρός) and G154 (αἰτέω);
KJV Usage: beg
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προσαιτέω prosaiteō 1x
to ask for in addition; to ask earnestly, beg; to beg alms, Joh_9:8
προσαίτης prosaitēs 2x
a beggar, mendicant, Mar_10:46 ; Joh_9:8
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
προσ -αιτέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX : Job_27:14 * ;]
1. to ask besides.
2. to continue asking; hence, to importune, beg, ask alms: Joh_9:8 .†
*† προσαίτης , -ου , ὁ ,
a beggar: Mar_10:46 , Joh_9:8 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προσαιτέω [page 545]
ask in addition, ask besides, is seen in PSI IV. 349 .6 (B.C. 254 3) ἀπεστάλκαμεν . . . προσαιτοῦντες πρὸς τοῖς ξ̄ με (τρηταῖς ) τοῖς ἐνοφειλομένοις ἄλλους Σ̄ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προσαιτέω fut. ήσω "to ask besides", αἷμα πρ. "to demand more blood", Aesch. ; πρ. μισθόν "to demand higher" pay, Xen. c. acc. pers. "to importune, ask an alms of", Hdt. : c. acc. rei, "to beg for" a thing, Eur. : c. dupl. acc. "to beg" somewhat "of" one, id=Eur. , Xen. :—absol. "to beg hard, to be importunate", Eur. , Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
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.†
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