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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
knock .
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Examples
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Therewith he heard a voice saying, “Who knocketh at the door of the treasure, unknowing how to solve the secrets?”
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There everyone who asks receiveth thee, and everyone who seeks finds thee, and to everyone that knocketh boldly it is speedily opened.
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And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
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And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh.
Samuel Ibn Tibbon Robinson, James T. 2006
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For EVERY ONE that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
An American Tragedy 2004
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My Husband knocketh at the doore, and now he will perceive the occasion of our so familiar acquaintance.
The Decameron 2004
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As commonly after actions of evill, Repentance knocketh at the doore of Conscience, and urgeth a guilty remembrance, with some sence of sorrow: so was it now with sweet Sir Simon, who survayin over all his vailes of offering Candles, the validity of his yearely benefits, and all comming nothing neere the summe of (scarce halfe) sixe and twenty
The Decameron 2004
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