1 Samuel 13:12
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
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Supplication
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Philippians 4:6
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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12 occurrences in 11 verses.
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תְּחִנָּה
tᵉchinnâh · tekh-in-naw'
22 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
graciousness; causatively, entreaty
Strong's KJV usage: favour, grace, supplication.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:28Strong's last: Daniel 9:20
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chânan · khaw-nan'
10 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: 1 Kings 8:33Strong's last: Hosea 12:4
Open full H2603 profile →δέησις
déēsis · deh'-ay-sis
4 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
a petition
Strong's KJV usage: :--prayer, request, supplication.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:14Strong's last: Philippians 4:6
Open full G1162 profile →חָלָה
châlâh · khaw-law'
1 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.
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Strong's first: 1 Samuel 13:12Strong's last: 1 Samuel 13:12
Open full H2470 profile →חֲנַן
chănan · khan-an'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to favor or (causatively) to entreat
Strong's KJV usage: shew mercy, make supplication.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 6:11Strong's last: Daniel 6:11
Open full H2604 profile →פָּלַל
pâlal · paw-lal'
1 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: Isaiah 45:14Strong's last: Isaiah 45:14
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H8467
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
H8467
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.
H2603
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:
H8467
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
H8467
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
H2603
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
H8467
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
H8467
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
H8467
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
H8467
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
H2603
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
H8467
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
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supplication
SUPPLICA'TION, noun [Latin supplicatio.]
1. Entreaty; humble and earnest prayer in worship. In all our supplications to the Father of mercies, let us remember a world lying in ignorance and wickedness.
2. Petition; earnest request.
3. In Roman antiquity, a religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success. It consisted in sacrifices, feasting, offering thanks, and praying for a continuance of success.
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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