'Asking' in the Bible

and having called, they were asking if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, doth lodge here?

And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who is over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,