80 occurrences

'Asked' in the Bible

They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?sarah

I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

Verse ConceptsJewelleryWho Is This?This Is Me

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersAsking Particular QuestionsMisrepresentationOther WivesBeautiful Women

Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitFirstbornInheritance, MaterialFirstborn SonsThis Is MePeople Blessing

Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?whores

He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOther Sad People

They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

Verse ConceptsLiving On

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

Verse ConceptsGoldPeople Giving Clothesjewelry

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarFavorlent

They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

Verse ConceptsMaggotsFood Decayingworms

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings

According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.

Verse ConceptsTownRebuilding Named Cities

It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightFighting Enemies

He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

Verse ConceptsButterNoblesWaterBeverages, LiteralRich Food

They said one to another, "Who has done this thing?" When they inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."

Verse ConceptsWho Is The Doer?

They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

Verse ConceptsGreetings

The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" Yahweh said, "Judah [shall go up] first."

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodFirst To FightFighting EnemiesPeople Of Judah

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" Yahweh said, "Go up against him."

Verse ConceptsAction Until Evening

The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionThe Ark Moved Around

Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."

Verse ConceptsHear Prayer!petition

It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsAskingChildbirthPrayerfulnessConceptionPeople With Apt NamesMiraculous BirthsWaiting For God's TimingReproduction, After Kind

Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsIndividuals going homeExchange Of IndividualsPeople Who Blessed Otherslent

Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.

Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, "Is there yet a man to come here?" Yahweh answered, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodHiding From PeopleBaggage

Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.

Verse ConceptsGod Not AnsweringTo Be Given Into One's Handssaul

Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'

Verse ConceptsBethlehemAsking PermissionEvery YearGone Awayanniversary

Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.

David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentEmployers, Bad ExamplesSick IndividualsWhere From?

When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodGod Answered Prayer

God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

Verse ConceptsGetting RichDiscernmentNatural Disasters

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMoney, Attitudes ToPresent, TheSource Of HonourWealthy People

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanQueensSolomon, Character OfPresentsIndividuals going homePeople Giving Other Things

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so."

Verse ConceptsHard TasksSeeing People

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean?'"

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodNamed Prophets Of The LordExamples Of Good Servants

The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ElishaBuoyancyWhere Are Things?

When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsGiving Back

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby],

Verse ConceptsLast ThingsMediumsSin, God's Judgment OnSin, Nature OfUnfaithfulness, To GodWord Of GodOccultismPunishment Of the WickedNames And Titles For The ChristianNecromancypsychics

God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMaking DecisionsWealth And Prosperity

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

Verse ConceptsQueensIndividuals going home

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, "Come to me again the third day."

Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"

Verse ConceptsRestorationThe King's Ordersstructure

We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at the head of them.

that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsRemnantAsking Particular Questions

But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingGone Away

Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews.

Verse Conceptsfate

Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

Verse Conceptsflexibility

Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom."

Verse ConceptsQueensWhat Is The Matter?Half Of Districts

Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

Verse ConceptsTravellers

You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfUnderstandingNot Understanding Other ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Verse ConceptsLengthChrist's LifeGod Answered Prayer

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

Verse ConceptsBread, Kinds OfQuailSatisfactionBirds, Types Of Birds

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

Verse ConceptsTorture

"Two things I have asked of you; don't deny me before I die:

Verse ConceptsTwo Intangible ThingsBefore Death

who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's Counsel

Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, "What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon."

Verse ConceptsPeople From Far AwayWhere From?Named Prophets Of The Lord

Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

Verse ConceptsLooking And Seeing

They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?

Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPrivacyInformation In SecretGod Will Cause DefeatQuestioning God

Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Verse ConceptsInterrogatingUnhearing

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king's matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyDivinationUnique EventsNo One Available

I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

Verse ConceptsSpectatorsGod Revealing Mysteries

Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is The One?Where From?Why Does This Happen?jonah

Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'" The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."

Verse ConceptsCommunicationGod's Things Revealed

I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theHorns In AllegoryWhat Is This?jerusalem

Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

Verse ConceptsBreadthMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandWhere To?jerusalemmeasurement

Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Two Plant ProductsOlive Trees

I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?"

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfOlive OilOil For LampsWhat Is This?Speaking AgainWater ChannelOlive TreesMoral Decay

Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?

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Demand (66 instances)
Enquire (7 instances)
Expect (43 instances)
Inquire (138 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐπερωτάω 
Eperotao 
Usage: 55

אשׁקלון 
'Ashq@lown 
Usage: 12

בּעה בּעא 
B@`a' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאל 
Sh@'el (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

ἀνακρίνω 
Anakrino 
Usage: 16

ἀπαιτέω 
Apaiteo 
Usage: 0

ἐξετάζω 
Exetazo 
Usage: 2

ἐρωτάω 
Erotao 
Usage: 42

πυνθάνομαι 
Punthanomai 
Usage: 11