Word Summary
exaiteō: to ask for oneself (mid.), demand
Original Word: ἐξαιτέωTransliteration: exaiteō
Phonetic Spelling: (ex-ahee-teh'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to ask for oneself (mid.), demand
Meaning: to ask for oneself, demand
Strong's Concordance
desire.
Middle voice from ek and aiteo; to demand (for trial) -- desire.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK aiteo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1809: ἐξαιτέωἐξαιτέω,
ἐξαίτω: 1 aorist middle
ἐξητησαμην;
to ask from, demand of (cf.
ἐκ, VI. 2). Middle
to ask from (or beg) for oneself:
τινα,
to ask that one be given up to one from the power of another — in both senses, either for good,
to beg one from another, ask for the pardon, the safety, of someone (
Xenophon, an. 1, 1, 3;
Demosthenes, p. 546, 22;
Plutarch, Per. 32;
Palaeph. 41, 2); or in a bad sense,
for torture, for punishment (
Plutarch, mor., p. 417 d. de defect. orac. 14; in secular authors often with this sense in the active); so of Satan asking the apostles out of the power and keeping of God to be tried by afflictions (allusion being made to
Job 1:1-12):
Luke 22:31 (
Test xii. Patr., p. 729 (test. Benj. § 3)
ἐάν τά πνεύματα τοῦ Βελιάρ εἰς πᾶσαν πονηρίαν θλίψεως ἐξαιτησωνται ὑμᾶς).