2001 Translation

ERŌTŌN, erōtōn

Sounds Like: eh-ROH-tohn

Translations: asking, questioning, requesting, imploring, one who asks, he who asks

From the root: ΕΡΩΤΑΩ

Part of Speech: Verb, Participle

Explanation: ΕΡΩΤΩΝ is the present active participle of the verb ΕΡΩΤΑΩ (erōtaō), meaning 'to ask' or 'to question'. As a participle, it describes an ongoing action and can function verbally (e.g., 'while asking'), adjectivally (e.g., 'the asking person'), or substantively (e.g., 'the one who asks'). It is used to indicate someone who is in the act of inquiring or making a request.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2065 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Shepherd of Hermas — 16:1

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΡΩΤΑΩ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἘΡΩΤΑΩ — ask, question, request, entreat, beg
• ἘΡΩΤΩΜΕΝΟΣ — being asked, being questioned, being requested
• ΕΠΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΣ — asking, questioning, inquiring, demanding, requesting
• ΕΠΗΡΩΤΗΣΑΝ — they asked, they questioned, they inquired
• ΕΡΟΤΑΙ — they ask, they question, they request, they entreat
• ΕΡΩΤ — ask, question, request, entreat, beg
• ΕΡΩΤΑ — ask, question, request, entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΑΝ — to ask, to question, to request, to entreat, to inquire
• ΕΡΩΤΑΣ — you ask, you question, you request, you entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΑΩ — ask, question, request, beg, entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΑΙ — to ask, to question, to request, to entreat, to inquire
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of having asked, of having questioned, of having inquired
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΑΤΑΙ — he was asked, she was asked, it was asked, they were asked, you (plural) ask, you (plural) request
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΑΤΕ — you asked, you questioned, you requested, you begged
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΗ — question, inquiry, interrogation, a question, an inquiry, an interrogation
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΗΤΑΙ — he may be asked, he may be questioned, he may be requested
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΟ — I will ask, I will question, I will request, I will entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΟΝ — ask, question, request, entreat, beg
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will ask, they will question, they will inquire
• ΕΡΩΤΗΣΩ — I will ask, I will question, I will request, I will inquire
• ΕΡΩΤΩ — I ask, I question, I request, I entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΩΜΕΝ — we ask, we question, we request, we entreat
• ΕΡΩΤΩΝΤΕΣ — asking, questioning, requesting, those asking, while asking
• ΕΡΩΤΩΝΤΩΝ — (of) those asking, (of) those questioning, (of) those requesting
• ἨΡΕΤΟ — he asked, he inquired, he questioned
• ἨΡΩΤΗΘΗ — he was asked, she was asked, it was asked
• ΗΡΕΙΤΟ — he was asking, he was inquiring, he was questioning, he was requesting
• ΗΡΩΤΑ — he was asking, he asked, he was questioning, he questioned
• ΗΡΩΤΗΣΑ — I asked, I questioned, I inquired, I requested
• ΗΡΩΤΗΣΑΝ — they asked, they questioned, they inquired, they requested
• ΗΡΩΤΗΣΕ — he asked, he questioned, he inquired, he requested
• ΗΡΩΤΗΣΕΝ — he asked, she asked, it asked, he questioned, she questioned, it questioned
• ΗΡΩΤΟΥ — he was asking, he was questioning, he was requesting, they were asking, they were questioning, they were requesting
• ΗΡΩΤΟΥΝ — they were asking, they were questioning, they were requesting
• ΗΡΩΤΩΝ — they were asking, they were questioning, they were inquiring, they were requesting
• ΠΕΡΩΤΑΩ — ask, question, inquire, request, entreat
• ΠΗΡΩΤΗΣΑΝ — they asked, they questioned, they inquired, they requested
• ΠΡΟΣΕΠΗΡΩΤΗΣΕΝ — he asked in addition, he questioned further, he inquired further

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