Strong's #2065: erotao (pronounced er-o-tah'-o)
apparently from 2046 (compare 2045); to interrogate; by implication, to request:--ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray. Compare 4441.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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erōtaō
1) to question
2) to ask
2a) to request, entreat, beg, beseech
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: apparently from G2046 compare G2045
Citing in TDNT: 2:685, 262
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Acts 18:20: "When they desired him to tarry longer time with them,"
Acts 23:18: "Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this"
Acts 23:20: "The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul"
Philippians 4:3: "And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women"
1 Thessalonians 4:1: "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by"
1 Thessalonians 5:12: "And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you,"
2 Thessalonians 2:1: "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our"
1 John 5:16: "I do not say that he shall pray for it."
2 John 1:5: "And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote"
