Strong's G1905 ἐπερωτάω (eperotao)

And he asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me if there is room for us to lodge with thy father.

And the men of the place questioned him concerning Rebekah his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the place should slay him because of Rebekah, because she was fair.

And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Enaim by the wayside? and they said, There was no harlot here.

And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have ye a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother?

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall show me, I will report to thee. And Balak stood by his sacrifice.

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go to inquire of God.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, and they shall ask of him before the Lord the judgment of the Urim: they shall go forth at his word, and at his word they shall come in, he and the children of Israel with one accord, and all the congregation.

Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened anything like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, an observer of signs, questioning the dead.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years for past ages: Ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, Thine elders, and they shall tell thee.

counsel of the Lord.

And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

And he took prisoner a young lad of the men of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote to him the names of the princes of Succoth and of their elders, seventy-seven men.

and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days; and the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we yet again go forth to fight with our brethren the sons of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up, tomorrow I will give them into your hands.

Now beforetime in Israel everyone in going to inquire of God said, Come and let us go to the seer; for the people beforetime called the prophet, the seer.

And Samuel asked yet again of the Lord, Will the man come hither? and the Lord said, Behold, he is hidden among the stuff.

And Saul inquired of God, If I go down after the Philistines, wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not in that day.

And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said, Go, and thou shalt smite these Philistines, and shalt save Keilah.

And Saul inquired of the Lord; and the Lord answered him not by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets.

And Samuel said, Why askest thou me, whereas the Lord has departed from thee, and taken part with thy neighbor?

And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? and he said to him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and thou shalt surely rescue the captives.

And it came to pass after this that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah? and the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? and he said, To Hebron.

And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

And Uriah arrived and went in to him, and David asked him how Joab was, and how the people were, and how the war went on.

And the king answered, and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the matter which I ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king by all means speak.

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in former days, was as if one should inquire of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and also to Absalom.

And she spoke, saying, Of old time they said thus, Surely one was asked in Abel, and Dan, whether the faithful in Israel failed in what they purposed; they will surely ask in Abel, even in like manner, whether they have failed.

And Jehoshaphat said, As I am, so art thou also; as my people, so is thy people; as my horses, so are thy horses. And Jehoshaphat king of Judah said to the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord today.

And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord by him?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is one man here for us to inquire of the Lord by; but I hate him, for he does not speak good of me, but only evil; Micaiah son of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat king of Judah said, Let not the king say so.

And Ahaziah fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to inquire of him.

And the king asked the woman, and she told him: and the king appointed her a eunuch, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field from the day that she left the land until now.

So Saul died for his transgressions, wherein he transgressed against God, against the word of the Lord, forasmuch as he kept it not, because Saul inquired of a wizard to seek counsel, and Samuel the prophet answered him:

For ask of the former generation, And search diligently among the race of our fathers

But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; And the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.

For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; And they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And he who holds his peace shall seem to be sensible.

Say not, What has happened, That the former days were better than these? For thou dost not inquire in wisdom concerning this.

And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall inquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and them that have in them a divining spirit.

even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not inquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharaoh, and protected by the Egyptians.

I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am here, to a nation, who called not on my name.

Inquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and the king shall depart from us.

All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.

For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things wherein he is entangled.

And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass:

And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.

Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, saith the Lord.

For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to inquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims.

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king’s matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.

For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.

And Daniel answered before the king, and said, The mystery which the king asks the explanation of is not in the power of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, or soothsayers to declare to the king.

They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to them by their staffs: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priests concerning the law, saying,

And I inquired, and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these things, my lord?

And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive trees that are by the side of the two golden pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?

And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.

And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?

And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto them, Thou sayest it.

And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

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

And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?

And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.

When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.

Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.

Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.

Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;

But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?

And they called together all the ancients of the city, and all their youth ran together, and their women, to the assembly, and they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Uzziah asked him of that which was done.

and they took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am a woman of the Hebrews, and am fled from them: for they shall be given you to be consumed:

And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

So when the first was dead after this manner, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?

Howbeit, having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into council by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:

Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept.