Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Asking alms; supplicating; assuming without proof.
Request Roget’s Thesaurus §765
N. request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation
V. request, ask, beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask, beg leave, beg a boon, apply to, call to, put to, call upon, call for, make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition, make application, make a requisition, ask trouble, ask one for, claim, offer up prayers, whistle for, beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore, conjure, adjure, obtest, cry to, kneel to, appeal to, invoke, evoke, impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for, cry aloud, cry for help, fall on one's knees, throw oneself at the feet of, come down on one's marrowbones, beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging, mendicate, mump, cadge, beg one's bread, dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door, bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court, seek, bid for, publish the banns
Adj. requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones
Adv. prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, i pray thee, if you please
Int. for god's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness' sake, for mercy's sake, phr, dieu vous garde, dirigenos domine, would you be so kind as to
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
4 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “begging”
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his belly there shall burn a fire.
