What does ἐξαιτέομαι (exaitéomai) mean in the Bible?
ἐξαιτέομαι (exaitéomai): To demand for oneself, often with legal or authoritative force in judicial contexts.
Greek · G1809
ἐξαιτέομαι
To demand (for trial)
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ἐξαιτέομαιG1809
Pronunciationexaitéomai
What does ἐξαιτέομαι (exaitéomai) mean in the Bible?
ἐξαιτέομαι (exaitéomai): To demand for oneself, often with legal or authoritative force in judicial contexts.
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How does the BSB render G1809?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include has asked (1).
Where does ἐξαιτέομαι (exaitéomai) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 22:31. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Ithas asked1×Luke 22:31
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First aligned rowLuke 22:31
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Luke1
Source forms
ἐξῃτήσατο1xexētēsatoLuke 22:31
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular1xLuke 22:31
Evidence Summary
Greek word. To demand for oneself, often with legal or authoritative force in judicial contexts.
Strong'sG1809
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
to demand (for trial)
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
To demand for oneself, often with legal or authoritative force in judicial contexts.
to ask from; mid., to ask for oneself, demand: aor., ἐξῃτήσατο, with accusative (obtained you by asking, R, mg.), Luk.22:31 (see Field, Notes, 76; Cremer, 73).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 22:31Verb Third Person Singular Aorist Middle Indicative
ἐξῃτήσατοexhthsato
I demand of, ask for
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
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Form groups1Aligned forms1TensesAoristVoicesMiddle
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Tenses
Voices
Indicativestates a fact or reality1×
Aorist MiddleLuke 22:311×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist1
Voice
middle1
Mood
indicative1
NT Occurrences
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Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 22:24–34ἐξῃτήσατοexaitéomai
Has demanded earnestly
Word Origins
ἐξαιτέομαι is built from these roots: