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διερωτάω

to ask through

‘to ask through’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1331 Strong's Greek
dierōtáō Transliteration
/dee-er-o-tah'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Greek verb διερωταω centers on the idea of “to ask through.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Acts (100%). It occurs only once, in Acts 10:17. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
make enquiry for
Modern gloss
to ask through
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1331 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 10:17
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Acts 10:17.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Had made enquiry 1×
  • American Standard Version: Having made inquiry 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Found 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having found by inquiry 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1331 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Had made enquiry” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1331 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Having made inquiry” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1331 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Found” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1331 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Having found by inquiry” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. ask many, one after another
  2. to find out by asking, enquire out

Word origin

Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.

Part of speech: Verb

From G1223 and G2065 ; to question throughout that is ascertain by interrogation : - make enquiry for.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1331, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

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