17 occurrences

'Begging' in the Bible

“Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]?Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?

As Jesus went into Capernaum, a centurion came up to Him, begging Him [for help],

So the slave fell on his knees and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.’

And a leper came to Him, begging Him and falling on his knees before Him, saying, “If You are willing, You are able to make me clean.”

And he began begging Him repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

As He was stepping into the boat, the [Gentile] man who had been demon-possessed was begging with Him [asking] that he might go with Him [as a disciple].

Now the woman was a Gentile (Greek), a Syrophoenician by nationality. And she kept pleading with Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

But the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging Him, pleading to go with Him; but Jesus sent him away, saying,

As He was approaching Jericho [on His way to Jerusalem], it happened that a blind man was sitting beside the road begging.

and they recognized him as the very man who usually sat begging for coins at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement and were mystified at what had happened to him.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Come to us without delay.”

And [there in Jerusalem] the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul [before Festus], and they repeatedly pleaded with him,

begging us insistently for the privilege of participating in the service for [the support of] the saints [in Jerusalem].

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H34
אביון 
'ebyown 
Usage: 61

בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

πτωχός 
Ptochos 
Usage: 16