59 occurrences in 12 translations

'Asked' in the Bible

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

They were all astounded and bewildered, and asked one another, "What can this mean?"

Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?

"What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

“Tell me,” Peter asked her, “did you sell the field for this price?”“Yes,” she said, “for that price.”

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

"But the man who was doing the wrong resented his interference, and asked, "'Who appointed you magistrate and judge over us?

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

The eunuch asked Philip, "I ask you, who is the prophet talking about? Himself? Or someone else?"

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, stood at the gate.

And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.

For they heard them talking in [unknown] tongues (languages) and exalting and magnifying and praising God. Then Peter said,

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.

He had been very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. Together they presented themselves before him. They won over Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedroom, and through him they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.

who was a friend of the Proconsul Sergius Paulus. The Proconsul was a man of keen intelligence. He sent for Barnabas and Saul, and asked to be told God's Message.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

Then they asked for a king, so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

And as John was finishing his course [of ministry], he kept saying, ‘What or who do you think that I am? I am not He [the Christ]; but be aware, One is coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie [even as His slave]!’

Though they found no grounds for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have Him killed.

The jailer asked for torches and rushed inside. Trembling as he knelt in front of Paul and Silas,

So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

Then they took him, brought him before the Areopagus, and asked, "May we know what this new teaching of yours is?

And though they asked him to stay for a longer time, he declined,

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

“Then what baptism were you baptized with?” he asked them.“With John’s baptism,” they replied.

Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.

Just as Paul was about to be taken into the barracks, he asked the tribune, "May I say something to you?"

The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

"'Who art thou, Lord?' I asked. "'I am Jesus, the Nazarene,' He replied, 'whom you are persecuting.'

But when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul asked the centurion who was standing there, "Is it legal for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't been condemned?"

So the tribune went and asked Paul, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

So he took him, brought him to the commander, and said, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, because he has something to tell you.”

Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?

He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

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

Then Festus, wanting to do the Jewish leaders a favor, asked Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried there before me on these charges?"

When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews presented their case and asked for a judgment against him.

And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.

But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor."

For this reason I’ve asked to see you and speak to you. In fact, it is for the hope of Israel that I’m wearing this chain.”

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐπερωτάω 
Eperotao 
Usage: 55

אשׁקלון 
'Ashq@lown 
Usage: 12

בּעה בּעא 
B@`a' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאל 
Sh@'el (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

ἀνακρίνω 
Anakrino 
Usage: 16

ἀπαιτέω 
Apaiteo 
Usage: 0

ἐξετάζω 
Exetazo 
Usage: 2

ἐρωτάω 
Erotao 
Usage: 42

πυνθάνομαι 
Punthanomai 
Usage: 11

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