noun · neuter
aitēmem
Strong’sG155
a petition, request
stem aitēm-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
αἴτημα, -ατος, τό
(< αἰτέω), [in LXX chiefly for שְׁאֵלָה;]
SYN.: v.s. δέησις.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G155 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidah'-ee-tay-mah
a thing asked or (abstractly) an asking
Fromfrom G154;
King Jamespetition, request, required.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
request, demand, NT+5th c.BC+
II in Logic and in Mathematics texts, postulate, assumption, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | aitēmem | aitēmeim1×αἰτήματα |
| of, belonging to genitive | aitēmeu | aitēmeiu |
| to, for dative | aitēme | aitēmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aitēme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
aitēmeim“requests”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Philippians 4:6… kai ta deēsia meta eucharistiau teim aitēmeim vu gnōrizotōr pros ton theon;… and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
aitēmem1×
Luke 23:24kai Pilatos epikrinata genera tem aitēmem autoiu;So Pilate sentenced that their demand be met.
aitēmeim1×
1 John 5:15“requests”… ean aitoneiō, oidanē hoti echanō teim aitēmeim heim aitanē apo autou.… whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.