Definition

to interrogate; by implication, to request

Etymology

apparently from G2046 (ἐρέω) (compare G2045 (ἐρευνάω));

Where the KJV renders it

• ask
• beseech
• desire
• intreat
• pray

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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