STRONGS G2925:
κρούω; 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.).
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