ἀπαιτέω
apaiteō · ask back, demand back
Greek word · Strong’s number G523 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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apaiteō (ἀπαιτέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ask back, demand back”.
What is one's own.
How to say it
a·pai·te·ō
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To ask for what is one's own to be returned.
From Abbott-Smith (1922)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- demand it back ×1
- they demand ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Luke 6:30
Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.
- Luke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’