Word Summary
krouō: to strike
Original Word: κρούωTransliteration: krouō
Phonetic Spelling: (kroo'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to strike
Meaning: to strike
Strong's Concordance
knock.
Apparently a primary verb; to rap -- knock.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2925: κρούωκρούω; 1 aorist participle
κρουσας;
to knock:
τήν θύραν, to knock at the door,
Luke 13:25;
Acts 12:13 (
Aristophanes eccles. 317, 990;
Xenophon, symp. 1, 11;
Plato, Prot., p. 310 a.; 314 d.; symp. 212 c.; but
κόπτειν τήν θύραν is better, according to Phryn. with whom Lobeck agrees, p. 177 (cf.
Schmidt (chapter 113, 9), who makes
κόπτειν to knock with a heavy blow,
κρούειν to knock with the knuckles)); without
τήν θύραν (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)),
Matthew 7:7;
Luke 11:9, 10;
Luke 12:36;
Acts 12:16;
Revelation 3:20 (on which see
θύρα, c.
ἐ.).