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Verb epaiteō (to beg) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint)
Luke
| 16: 3 | Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg (epaiteō). |
| 18: 35 | As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging (epaiteō).
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Psalms (LXX)
| 109 (108): 10 | Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg (epaiteō): let them be cast out of their habitations. |
Sirach (LXX)
| 40: 28 | My son, lead not a beggar's life; for better it is to die than to beg (epaiteō). |
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