prosaitos

Strong’sG4319

a beggar

stem prosait-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.

*† προσαίτης, -ου, ὁ,

a beggar: Mk 10:46, Jo 9:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4319 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpros-ahee-teh'-o

to ask repeatedly (importune), i.e. solicit

Fromfrom G4314 and G154;

King Jamesbeg.

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

προσαιτ-έω,
ask besides, οὐδέν Refs 5th c.BC+; αἷμα π. demand more blood, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. μισθόν demand higher pay, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 demand or require for a purpose, ὅσους.. τὰ ἔργα προσαιτοίη Refs
II ask as well as others (i.e. for a share), and so, with accusative person, ask an alms of, Refs 5th c.BC+: with accusative of things, beg for a thing, βίοτον, στρατιάν, Refs 5th c.BC+: with double accusative, beg somewhat of one, Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, beg some of.., Refs 1st c.AD+: absolutely, to be importunate, Refs 5th c.BC+; to be a beggar, Refs 5th 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.

beggar2×

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 nominative	prosaitos2×προσαίτης	prosaitois
object accusative	prosaiton	prosaitoin
direct address vocative	prosaitor	prosaitoir
of, belonging to genitive	prosaitou	prosaitoiu
to, for dative	prosaito	prosaitoi

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

prosaitstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

prosaito 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

prosaitamō — προσαιτέω, I beg

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

prosaitos“beggar”subjectnominative singular2×

Mark 10:46… hikanou tos huios Timaiou Bartimaios tuflos prosaitos kathote para tan hodan.… with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus …

John 9:8“beggar”… tois theōrarōntois auton tem proterem hoti prosaitos ate legale; Ouk houtos atō tos …… neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who …