Quick Definition
to pray
Strong's Definition
to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: intreat, judge(-ment), (make) pray(-er, -ing), make supplication.
TWOT Reference: 1776
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּלַל (pa.lal) — to pray. 1) to intervene, interpose, pray 1a) (Piel) to mediate, judge 1b)(Hithpael) 1b1) to intercede 1b2) to pray
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · פָּלִיל · פְּלִילָה · פְּלִילִי · פְּלִילִיָּה · אֱלִיפַל
verb · תְּפִלָּה
Pray | verb hit
to pray, to intercede = action by which humans speak to a deity, often by raising their hands, ► requesting help or expressing their thankfulness
GEN 20:7 · GEN 20:17 · NUM 11:2 · NUM 21:7 · NUM 21:7 · DEU 9:20 · DEU 9:26 · 1SA 1:10 · 1SA 1:12 · 1SA 1:26 · 1SA 1:27 · 1SA 2:1 · 1SA 7:5 · 1SA 8:6 · 1SA 12:19 · 1SA 12:23 · 2SA 7:27 · 1KI 8:28 · 1KI 8:29 · 1KI 8:30 · 1KI 8:33 · 1KI 8:35 · 1KI 8:42 · 1KI 8:44 · 1KI 8:48 · 1KI 8:54 · 1KI 13:6 · 2KI 4:33 · 2KI 6:17 · 2KI 6:18 · 2KI 19:15 · 2KI 19:20 · 2KI 20:2 · 1CH 17:25 · 2CH 6:19 · 2CH 6:20 · 2CH 6:21 · 2CH 6:24 · 2CH 6:26 · 2CH 6:32 · 2CH 6:34 · 2CH 6:38 · 2CH 7:1 · 2CH 7:14 · 2CH 30:18 · 2CH 32:20 · 2CH 32:24 · 2CH 33:13 · EZR 10:1 · NEH 1:4 · NEH 1:6 · NEH 2:4 · NEH 4:3 · JOB 42:8 · JOB 42:10 · PSA 5:3 · PSA 32:6 · PSA 72:15 · ISA 16:12 · ISA 37:15 · ISA 37:21 · ISA 38:2 · ISA 44:17 · ISA 45:14 · ISA 45:20 · JER 7:16 · JER 11:14 · JER 14:11 · JER 29:7 · JER 29:12 · JER 32:16 · JER 37:3 · JER 42:2 · JER 42:4 · JER 42:20 · DAN 9:4 · DAN 9:20 · JON 2:2 · JON 4:2
Safe | verb pi
to intervene literally: to intercede; hence: = action by which humans or deities come between in order to alter a situation
1SA 2:25 · 1SA 2:25 · PSA 106:30 · EZK 16:52
1 EZK 16:52 NJPS "serving as advocate" ESV "intervened" NJB "freed" REB "pleaded (her) cause" | RSV "make judgment favorable" NIV "furnished justification" NRSV "brought about a favorable judgment"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּלַל] 84 vb. prob. intervene, interpose Pi. mediate, judge
Hithp. specif. intercede
gen. pray
pray
of poetical, liturgical prayer
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