Luke 11:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall 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 Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.
• John 16:23-24 : 23 and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you; 24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
• Matt 21:22 : 22 and all -- as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'
• John 15:16 : 16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
• John 15:7 : 7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
• 1 John 5:14-15 : 14 And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us, 15 and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.
• John 14:13 : 13 and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
• 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
• Jas 1:5 : 5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
• Ps 118:5 : 5 From the straitness I called Jah, Jah answered me in a broad place.
• Jas 5:15 : 15 and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.
• 2 Cor 12:8-9 : 8 Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me, 9 and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
• Heb 11:6 : 6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
• Ps 34:10 : 10 Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
• Heb 4:16 : 16 we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.
• Matt 7:7-9 : 7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; 8 for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. 9 `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him? 10 and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him? 11 if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things -- thou hast not known them.
• Jer 29:12 : 12 `And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
• Ps 50:15 : 15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
• Ps 34:4 : 4 I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.
• 2 Cor 6:2 : 2 for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now `is' a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --
• Mark 13:37 : 37 and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'
• Luke 13:24-25 : 24 `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able; 25 from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,
• Ps 27:8 : 8 To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
• Matt 6:29 : 29 and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
• Dan 9:3 : 3 and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek `by' prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
• Rom 2:7 : 7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
• Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth. 4 Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.
• John 1:45-49 : 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who `is' from Nazareth;' 46 and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.' 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;' 48 Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.' 49 Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'
• Acts 10:4-6 : 4 and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God, 5 and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter, 6 this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'
• Amos 5:4-6 : 4 For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live, 5 And seek not Beth-El, and Gilgal enter not, And Beer-Sheba pass not through, For Gilgal doth utterly remove, And Beth-El doth become vanity. 6 Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.
• Matt 21:31 : 31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
• Isa 45:19 : 19 Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.
• Song 3:1-4 : 1 On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not! 2 -- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not. 3 The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?' 4 But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother -- And the chamber of her that conceived me.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 `And to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, and who did not know the depths of the Adversary, as they say; I will not put upon you other burden;
• Song 5:6 : 6 I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.