'Asking' in the Bible

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.

But when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, Let him that is without sin among you first cast the stone at her.

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,