Luke 11:9

World English Bible (2000)

"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Κἀγὼ ὑμῖν λέγω, Αἰτεῖτε, καὶ δοθήσεται ὑμῖν· ζητεῖτε, καὶ εὑρήσετε· κρούετε, καὶ ἀνοιγήσεται ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

And I to you legō, Aiteite, and dothēsetai to you; zēteite, and heurēsete; krouete, and anoigēsetai to you.

Grammar Details

• *legō*: present indicative, active, 1st singular - I say/tell
• *Aiteite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - ask/request
• *dothēsetai*: future indicative, passive, 3rd singular - it will be given
• *zēteite*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - seek/search for
• *heurēsete*: future indicative, active, 2nd plural - you will find
• *krouete*: present imperative, active, 2nd plural - knock/beat
• *anoigēsetai*: future indicative, passive, 3rd singular - it will be opened

Word Meanings

• *legō*: say/tell/speak
• *Aiteite*: ask/request/demand
• *dothēsetai*: will be given/will be granted
• *zēteite*: seek/search for/strive for
• *heurēsete*: will find/will discover
• *krouete*: knock/beat/strike
• *anoigēsetai*: will be opened/will be unlocked

Referenced Verses

• Mark 11:24 : 24 Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
• John 16:23-24 : 23 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
• Matt 21:22 : 22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
• John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• John 15:7 : 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• 1 John 5:14-15 : 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
• John 14:13 : 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• Ps 118:5 : 5 Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
• Jas 5:15 : 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• 2 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
• Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
• Heb 4:16 : 16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
• Matt 7:7-9 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
• Jer 29:12 : 12 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
• Ps 34:4 : 4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
• 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
• Mark 13:37 : 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
• Luke 13:24-25 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. 25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
• Ps 27:8 : 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
• Matt 6:29 : 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
• Rom 2:7 : 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
• Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
• John 1:45-49 : 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 46 Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" 48 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 49 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
• Acts 10:4-6 : 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God. 5 Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter. 6 He lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside."
• Amos 5:4-6 : 4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live; 5 but don't seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don't pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. 6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
• Matt 21:31 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
• Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
• Song 3:1-4 : 1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" 4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
• Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.