Definition

to ask for

Etymology

from G1909 (ἐπί) and G154 (αἰτέω);

Word family

• ἐπί epí
• αἰτέω aitéō

How the KJV renders it

• beg

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.