Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
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1 John 5:16
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
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48 occurrences in 46 verses.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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προσεύχομαι
proseúchomai · pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
41 times translated as this KJV form91 total Strong's occurrences
to pray to God, i.e. supplicate, worship
Strong's KJV usage: :--pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:44Strong's last: James 5:14
Open full G4336 profile →פָּלַל
pâlal · paw-lal'
35 times translated as this KJV form84 total Strong's occurrences
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
Strong's KJV usage: intreat, judge(-ment), (make) pray(-er, -ing), make supplication.
Strong's first: Genesis 20:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 42:20
Open full H6419 profile →ἐρωτάω
erōtáō · er-o-tah'-o
10 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
to interrogate; by implication, to request
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray.
Strong's first: Luke 14:18Strong's last: 1 John 5:16
Open full G2065 profile →δέομαι
déomai · deh'-om-ahee
7 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
to beg (as binding oneself), i.e. petition
Strong's KJV usage: :--beseech, pray (to), make request.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 9:38Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 5:20
Open full G1189 profile →παρακαλέω
parakaléō · par-ak-al-eh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form114 total Strong's occurrences
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
Strong's KJV usage: :--beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:53Strong's last: Acts 27:34
Open full G3870 profile →חָלָה
châlâh · khaw-law'
3 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
Strong's KJV usage: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, × pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (× supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Zechariah 7:2Strong's last: Zechariah 8:22
Open full H2470 profile →εὔχομαι
eúchomai · yoo'-khom-ahee
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to wish; by implication, to pray to God
Strong's KJV usage: :--pray, will, wish.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 13:7Strong's last: James 5:16
Open full G2172 profile →אָנָּא
ʼânnâʼ · awn-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
oh now!
Strong's KJV usage: I (me) beseech (pray) thee, O.
Strong's first: Jonah 4:2Strong's last: Jonah 4:2
Open full H577 profile →חָנַן
chânan · khaw-nan'
1 times translated as this KJV form77 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
Strong's KJV usage: beseech, × fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, × very.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 6:37Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:37
Open full H2603 profile →עָתַר
ʻâthar · aw-thar'
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to burn incense in worship, i.e. intercede (reciprocally, listen to prayer)
Strong's KJV usage: intreat, (make) pray(-er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 33:26Strong's last: Job 33:26
Open full H6279 profile →פָּגַע
pâgaʻ · paw-gah'
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity
Strong's KJV usage: come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light (upon), meet (together), pray, reach, run.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 21:15Strong's last: Job 21:15
Open full H6293 profile →צְלָא
tsᵉlâʼ · tsel-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
pray
Strong's KJV usage: pray.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 6:10Strong's last: Ezra 6:10
Open full H6739 profile →שָׁאַל
shâʼal · shaw-al'
1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
Strong's KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
Strong's first: Psalms 122:6Strong's last: Psalms 122:6
Open full H7592 profile →שִׂיחַ
sîyach · see'-akh
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to ponder, i.e. (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
Strong's KJV usage: commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk (with).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:17Strong's last: Psalms 55:17
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12 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
no direct Strong's tag
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
no direct Strong's tag
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
no direct Strong's tag
And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
no direct Strong's tag
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
no direct Strong's tag
Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
H6419
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
no direct Strong's tag
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
no direct Strong's tag
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
no direct Strong's tag
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
no direct Strong's tag
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
no direct Strong's tag
And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
no direct Strong's tag
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
English meaning and historical usage.
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pray
PRAY, verb intransitive [Latin precor; proco; this word belongs to the same family as preach and reproach; Heb. to bless, to reproach; rendered in Job 2:9, to curse; properly, to reproach, to rail at or upbraid. In Latin the word precor signifies to supplicate good or evil, and precis signifies a prayer and a curse. See Imprecate.]
1. To ask with earnestness or zeal, as for a favor, or for something desirable; to entreat; to supplicate.
PRAY for them who despitefully use you and persecute you. Matthew 5:44.
2. To petition; to ask, as for a favor; as in application to a legislative body.
3. In worship, to address the Supreme Being with solemnity and reverence, with adoration, confession of sins, supplication for mercy, and thanksgiving for blessings received.
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. Matthew 6:5.
4. I pray that is, I pray you tell me, or let me know, is a common mode of introducing a question.
PRAY, verb transitive To supplicate; to entreat; to urge.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20.
1. In worship, to supplicate; to implore; to ask with reverence and humility.
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.
Acts 8:22.
2. To petition. The plaintiff prays judgment of the court.
He that will have the benefit of this act, must pray a prohibition before a sentence in the ecclesiastical court.
3. To ask or intreat in ceremony or form.
PRAY my colleague Antonius I may speak with him.
[In most instances, this verb is transitive only by ellipsis. To pray God, is used for to pray to God; to pray a prohibition, is to pray for a prohibition, etc.]
To pray in aid, in law, is to call in for help one who has interest in the cause.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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