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 I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
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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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