Bible Dictionary: Knocks

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Greek

2925. krouo -- to strike
... admittance. Word Origin a prim. verb Definition to strike NASB Word Usage
knock (4), knocked (1), knocking (1), knocks (3). knock. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5307. naphal -- to fall, lie
... 1), fell (98), fell down (8), felled (1), felling (1), give birth (1), go over
(1), going over (2), gone over (3), inferior (2), killed (1), knocks (1), lay (1 ...
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Library

The Man who Knocked at Midnight
... lend me three loaves! For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have
nothing to set before him!" He knocks again. "Friend! ... He knocks again. ...
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Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher of Prayer
... set before him! He knocks again. "Friend! lend me three loaves?" He waits
a while and then knocks again. "Friend! I must have ...
/.../bounds/the reality of prayer/v jesus christ the divine.htm

Our Knocking
... to take and to open. Christ knocks first, and when He knocks we should say,
'Come in, Thou blessed of the Lord.'. To bid a man pray ...
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John Chapter xiii. 10-Jun (Continued), and Song of Sol. v. 2, 3
... 4. But while the Church finds delightful repose in those who thus sweetly and humbly
sit at her feet, here is one who knocks, and says: "What I tell you in ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate lvii john chapter xiii.htm

Book Twelve the Mode of Creation and the Truth of Scripture. ...
... Inquiry is more loquacious than discovery. Demanding takes longer than obtaining;
and the hand that knocks is more active than the hand that receives. ...
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"A Day of Decision. "
... There is a day when the Son of Man comes and stands at our heart and knocks
and knocks for the last time and leaves us forever. ...
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On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 42, Where the Lord Asks ...
... It is the life which knocks, it is to the life that it is opened. ... Now that heart
which asks rightly, and knocks and seeks rightly, must be godly. ...
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John Chapter vii. 37-39
... for us to enter. Piety knocks, not the hand, though the hand also knocks,
if it cease not from works of mercy. What then is the ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xxxii john chapter vii.htm

Persistence of Thwarted Love
... He says, 'Come!' We say, 'I will not.' That door of the heart opens from within,
and He never breaks it open. He stands at the door and knocks. ...
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A Call to Prayer and Testimony
... him three cakes. He knocks at the door, but he has no answer. He knocks,
and knocks, and calls aloud to his neighbor. The answer ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/a call to prayer and.htm

Thesaurus

Knocks (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Knocks (5 Occurrences). Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks
receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Door (249 Occurrences)
... (WEY BBE WBS NIV). Matthew 7:8 For it is always he who asks that receives, he who
seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him. ...
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Opened (182 Occurrences)
... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS
YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Finds (71 Occurrences)
... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV
NIV). ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Receives (43 Occurrences)
... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV
NIV). ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Asks (41 Occurrences)
... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV
NIV). ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Seeks (48 Occurrences)
... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV
NIV). ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Open (586 Occurrences)
... Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks
it will be opened. ... He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ...
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Knop (4 Occurrences)

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Knocking (9 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Knocks (5 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 11:10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 12:36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 21:27 and if a tooth of his man-servant or a tooth of his handmaid he knock out, as a freeman he doth send him away for his tooth.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Song of Songs 5:2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
(WEB)

Subtopics

Knocks

Related Terms

Door (249 Occurrences)

Opened (182 Occurrences)

Finds (71 Occurrences)

Receives (43 Occurrences)

Asks (41 Occurrences)

Seeks (48 Occurrences)

Open (586 Occurrences)

Knop (4 Occurrences)

Knocking (9 Occurrences)