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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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.
Read in context →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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proseúchomai · pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
to pray to God, i.e. supplicate, worship
Strong's KJV usage: :--pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:44Strong's last: James 5:14
Open full G4336 profile →pâlal · paw-lal'
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 →erōtáō · er-o-tah'-o
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 →déomai · deh'-om-ahee
to beg (as binding oneself), i.e. petition
Strong's KJV usage: :--beseech, pray (to), make request.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:38Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 5:20
Open full G1189 profile →parakaléō · par-ak-al-eh'-o
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.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:53Strong's last: Acts 27:34
Open full G3870 profile →châlâh · khaw-law'
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.
Strong's first: Zechariah 7:2Strong's last: Zechariah 8:22
Open full H2470 profile →eúchomai · yoo'-khom-ahee
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 →ʼânnâʼ · awn-naw'
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 →chânan · khaw-nan'
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.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 6:37Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:37
Open full H2603 profile →ʻâthar · aw-thar'
to burn incense in worship, i.e. intercede (reciprocally, listen to prayer)
Strong's KJV usage: intreat, (make) pray(-er).
Strong's first: Job 33:26Strong's last: Job 33:26
Open full H6279 profile →pâgaʻ · paw-gah'
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.
Strong's first: Job 21:15Strong's last: Job 21:15
Open full H6293 profile →tsᵉlâʼ · tsel-aw'
pray
Strong's KJV usage: pray.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:10Strong's last: Ezra 6:10
Open full H6739 profile →shâʼal · shaw-al'
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 →sîyach · see'-akh
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).
Strong's first: Psalms 55:17Strong's last: Psalms 55:17
Open full H7878 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
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.
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.
And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
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.
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.
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
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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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