{"id":26195,"date":"2022-09-28T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/beseech\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:44:01","slug":"beseech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/beseech\/","title":{"rendered":"Beseech"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Beseech<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> the most frequent word with this meaning, lit. denotes &#8220;to call to one&#8217;s side,&#8221; hence, &#8220;to call to one&#8217;s aid.&#8221; It is used for every kind of calling to a person which is meant to produce a particular effect, hence, with various meanings, such as &#8220;comfort, exhort, desire, call for,&#8221; in addition to its significance &#8220;to beseech,&#8221; which has a stronger force than aiteo (see ASK). See, e.g., the RV &#8220;besought&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Mar 5:18<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 8:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 19:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Co 16:12<\/span>. See CALL, No. 6, Note (2), COMFORT, DESIRE, EXHORT, INTREAT, PRAY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> often translated by the verb &#8220;to beseech,&#8221; in the Gospels, is elsewhere rendered &#8220;beseech,&#8221; in <span class='bible'>1Th 4:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Th 5:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Th 2:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Jo 1:5<\/span>. See under ASK, No. 2. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to desire, to long for,&#8221; usually representing the word &#8220;need,&#8221; is sometimes translated &#8220;beseech,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 5:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 21:39<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Co 10:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Gal 4:12<\/span>. It is used of prayer to God, in <span class='bible'>Mat 9:38<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 10:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 21:36<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 22:32<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 4:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 8:22<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Act 8:24<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 10:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 1:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Th 3:10<\/span>. See PRAY, REQUEST. <\/p>\n<p> Note: Proskuneo is wrongly rendered &#8220;besought&#8221; in the AV marg. of <span class='bible'>Mat 18:26<\/span>. The word signifies &#8220;to worship.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beseech the most frequent word with this meaning, lit. denotes &#8220;to call to one&#8217;s side,&#8221; hence, &#8220;to call to one&#8217;s aid.&#8221; It is used for every kind of calling to a person which is meant to produce a particular effect, hence, with various meanings, such as &#8220;comfort, exhort, desire, call for,&#8221; in addition to its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/beseech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beseech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}