G4441 – punthanomai – πυνθάνομαι – to interrogate
- Strong’s ID:
- G4441
- Greek Word:
- πυνθάνομαι
- Transliteration:
- punthanomai
- Pronunciation:
- poon-than’-om-ahee
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- middle voice prolonged from a primary πυθω putho (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses)
- Comparables:
- G154
- Usage Count:
- 12
- Search:
- Find “punthanomai” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to interrogate
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
middle voice prolonged from a primary πυθω putho (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to question, i.e. ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of information merely; and thus differing from G2065, which properly means a request as a favor; and from G154, which is strictly a demand for something due; as well as from G2212, which implies a search for something hidden; and from G1189, which involves the idea of urgent need); by implication, to learn (by casual intelligence):—ask, demand, enquire, understand.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to enquire, ask
2) to ascertain, by enquiry
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.