Luk 18:3 | RWP | e4.org | Came oft ( ηρχετο ). Imperfect tense denotes repetitions, no adverb for "oft" in the Greek. Avenge me of ( εκδικησον με απο ). A late verb for doing justice, protecting one from another (note both εκ and απο , here). Deissmann ( Light from the Ancient East , pp. 420ff.) quotes a στηλη of the second century B.C. with a prayer for vengeance for a Jewish girl that had been murdered which has this very verb εκδικεω .

‏ Luke 18:3

Came oft ( ηρχετο ). Imperfect tense denotes repetitions, no adverb for "oft" in the Greek.

Avenge me of ( εκδικησον με απο ). A late verb for doing justice, protecting one from another (note both εκ and απο, here). Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, pp. 420ff.) quotes a στηλη of the second century B.C. with a prayer for vengeance for a Jewish girl that had been murdered which has this very verb εκδικεω.