Senses
1. knock (at a door) — To knock, strike at a door seeking entry. Used consistently in the NT for knocking on a literal or metaphorical door. In the 'ask, seek, knock' teaching of Jesus (Matt 7:7-8; Luke 11:9-10), knocking represents persistent prayer and seeking access to God. In Luke 12:36, servants wait for the master who will come and knock. In Luke 13:25, those shut out begin to knock on the closed door. In Acts 12:13, 16, Peter knocks at the gate of Mary's house after his miraculous release from prison. In Rev 3:20, Christ stands at the door and knocks, the most famous metaphorical use. All multilingual glosses are uniform: Arabic iqra'u/qara'a/yatruqu, German klopft/klopfen, French frapper, Hebrew dofek/difqu/dafaq, Hindi khatkhataana, Korean dudeurida, Spanish llamar/golpear. The six original clusters merely reflect different inflectional forms (present participle dative, aorist participle genitive, present imperative, present infinitive, present participle nominative, present indicative) of this single sense. 9×
AR["أَقْرَعُ","الْقارِعِ","اُقْرَعوا","اِقرَعوا","تَطْرُقُونَ","طَارِقٍ","قارِعِ","قَرَعَ","يَطْرُقُ"]·ben["আঘাত-করছি;","টোকা-দিতে","টোকা-দিলে","ঠক্ঠক্-কর","ঠক্ঠক্-করলে","ঠক্ঠক্-করে","দরজায়-আঘাত-কর","দরজায়-আঘাতকারীকে","ধাক্কা-দিতে"]·DE["klopfen","klopft"]·EN["I-knock","having-knocked","knock","knocking","to-knock"]·FR["frapper"]·heb["דִּפְקוּ","דָּפַק","דּוֹפֵק","דוֹפַק","לִדְפֹּק"]·HI["खटखटाओ","खटखटाता-हूँ;","खटखटाते","खटखटाते-हुए","खटखटाने","खटखटाने-पर","खटखटाने-वाले","खटखटानेवाले-को"]·ID["ketuklah","mengetuk","mengetuk;","yang-mengetuk"]·IT["bussare","krouō"]·jav["Kawula-ndhodhog","Thothok","ingkang-thothog-lawang","ingkang-thothok-thothok","thothog-lawang","thothog-lawanga","thothok-thothoka","thothok;"]·KO["두드리기를","두드리는-자","두드리는-자에게","두드리라","두드리며","두드리시면","두드리자","두드린다"]·PT["a-bater","batei","bato","que-bate"]·RU["постучавшего","постучавшему","стучать","стучащему","стучите","стучу;"]·ES["a-golpear","llamad","llamando","llamo","que-llama","que‒llama"]·SW["a-bishaye,","abishaye","akibisha","bisheni","bisheni,","kubisha","kubisha;","ninabisha;"]·TR["vuranaçılacaktır","vurun","vuruyorum","çalan","çalana","çalmaya","çalın","çalınca"]·urd["دستک-دیتا","دستک-دیتا-ہوں","دستک-دیتے-ہوئے","کھٹکھٹاؤ","کھٹکھٹاتے-ہی","کھٹکھٹانا","کھٹکھٹانے-والے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
κρούω, future -σω Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist Refs 6th c.BC+: perfect Refs 5th c.BC+ —middle, aorist Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, aorist Refs 3rd c.BC+: perfect κέκρουμαι (ἀπο-) Refs 5th c.BC+:—strike, smite, Refs 5th c.BC+; κρούσας δὲ πλευρὰ [τῶν ἵππων] Refs 5th c.BC+; also εἰς τὴν χεῖρα τοῖς δακτύλοις κ. with the fingers, Refs 2nd c.AD+ tickles, Refs 4th c.BC+ __2 strike one against another, strike…