krouō · knock

What it means

krouō (κρούω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “knock”.

Strike at a door.

How to say it

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

1. To rap at the door so it is opened.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• knock ×4
• one who knocks ×2
• knocked at ×1
• knocking ×1
• knocks ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×4
• Acts×2
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 7:7

  “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

• Matthew 7:8

  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

• Luke 11:9

  And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

• Luke 11:10

  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

• Luke 12:36

  and you be like people waiting for their master, to see when he will return from the wedding feast, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open to him.

• Luke 13:25

  Once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from.’

• Acts 12:13

  And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

• Acts 12:16

  But Peter kept on knocking; and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.

• Revelation 3:20

  Look, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.