“to pray (to God),” is used with this meaning in 2Co 13:7<\/span>; 2Co 13:9<\/span>, RV, “pray” (AV, “wish”); Jam 5:16<\/span>; 3Jo 1:2<\/span>, RV, “pray” (AV, wish). Even when the RV and AV translate by “I would,” Act 26:29<\/span>, or “wished for,” Act 27:29<\/span> (RV, marg., “prayed”), or “could wish,” Rom 9:3<\/span> (RV, marg., “could pray”), the indication is that “prayer” is involved. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to pray,” is always used of “prayer” to God, and is the most frequent word in this respect, especially in the Synoptists and Acts, once in Rom 8:26<\/span>; Eph 6:18<\/span>; Phi 1:9<\/span>; 1Ti 2:8<\/span>; Heb 13:18<\/span>; Jud 1:20<\/span>. For the injunction in 1Th 5:17<\/span>, see CEASE, C. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to ask,” is translated by the verb to pray in Luk 14:18-19<\/span>; Luk 16:27<\/span>; Joh 4:31<\/span>; Joh 14:16<\/span>; Joh 16:26<\/span>; Joh 17:9<\/span>, Joh 17:15<\/span>, Joh 17:20<\/span>; in Act 23:18<\/span>, RV, “asked” (AV “prayed”); in 1Jo 5:16<\/span>, RV, “should make request” (AV “shall pray”). See ASK, A, No. 2. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to desire,” in 2Co 5:20<\/span>; 2Co 8:4<\/span>, RV, “beseech” (AV, “pray”): see BESEECH, No. 3. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) Parakaleo, “to call to one’s aid,” is rendered by the verb “to pray” in the AV in the following: Mat 26:53<\/span> (RV, “beseech”); so Mar 5:17-18<\/span>; Act 16:9<\/span>; in Act 24:4<\/span>, RV, “intreat;” in Act 27:34<\/span>, RV, “beseech.” See BESEECH, No. 1. (2) In 1Th 5:23<\/span>; 2Ti 4:16<\/span>, there is no word in the original for “I pray,” see the RV. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 1, denotes “a prayer,” Jam 5:15<\/span>; “a vow,” Act 18:18<\/span>; Act 21:23<\/span>. See VOW. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 2, denotes (a) “prayer” (to God), the most frequent term, e.g., Mat 21:22<\/span>; Luk 6:12<\/span>, where the phrase is not to be taken literally as if it meant, “the prayer of God” (subjective genitive), but objectively, “prayer of God.” In Jam 5:17<\/span>, “He prayed fervently,” RV, is lit., “he prayed with prayer” (a Hebraistic form); in the following the word is used with No. 3: Eph 6:18<\/span>; Phi 4:6<\/span>; 1Ti 2:1<\/span>; 1Ti 5:5<\/span>; (b) “a place of prayer,” Act 16:13<\/span>, Act 16:16<\/span>, a place outside the city wall, RV. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n primarily “a wanting, a need” (akin to A, No. 4), then, “an asking, entreaty, supplication,” in the NT is always addressed to God and always rendered “supplication” or “supplications” in the RV; in the AV “prayer,” or “prayers,” in Luk 1:13<\/span>; Luk 2:37<\/span>; Luk 5:33<\/span>; Rom 10:1<\/span>; 2Co 1:11<\/span>; 2Co 9:14<\/span>; Phi 1:4<\/span> (in the 2nd part, “request”); Phi 1:19<\/span>; 2Ti 1:3<\/span>; Heb 5:7<\/span>; Jam 5:16<\/span>; 1Pe 3:12<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n is translated “prayer” in 1Ti 4:5<\/span>; see INTERCESSION. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) Proseuche is used of “prayer” in general; deesis stresses the sense of need; it is used sometimes of request from man to man. (2) In the papyri enteuxis is the regular word for a petition to a superior. For the synonymous word aitema see PETITION; for hiketeria, Heb 5:7<\/span>, see SUPPLICATION. <\/p>\n (3) “Prayer is properly addressed to God the Father Mat 6:6<\/span>; Joh 16:23<\/span>; Eph 1:17<\/span>; Eph 3:14<\/span>, and the Son, Act 7:59<\/span>; 2Co 12:8<\/span>; but in no instance in the NT is prayer addressed to the Holy Spirit distinctively, for whereas the Father is in Heaven, Mat 6:9<\/span>, and the Son is at His right hand, Rom 8:34<\/span>, the Holy Spirit is in and with the believers, Joh 14:16-17<\/span>. <\/p>\n “Prayer is to be offered in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Joh 14:13<\/span>, that is, the prayer must accord with His character, and must be presented in the same spirit of dependence and submission that marked Him, Mat 11:26<\/span>; Luk 22:42<\/span>. <\/p>\n “The Holy Spirit, being the sole interpreter of the needs of the human heart, makes His intercession therein; and inasmuch as prayer is impossible to man apart from His help, Rom 8:26<\/span>, believers are exhorted to pray at all seasons in the Spirit, Eph 6:18<\/span>; cp. Jud 1:20<\/span>; Jam 5:16<\/span>, the last clause of which should probably be read “the inwrought [i.e., by the Holy Spirit] supplication of righteous man availeth much’ (or ‘greatly prevails’ ischuo, as in Act 19:16<\/span>, Act 19:20<\/span>). <\/p>\n “None the less on this account is the understanding to be engaged in prayer, 1Co 14:15<\/span>, and the will, Col 4:12<\/span>; Act 12:5<\/span> (where ‘earnestly’ is, lit., ‘stretched out’) and so in Luk 22:44<\/span>. <\/p>\n “Faith is essential to prayer, Mat 21:22<\/span>; Mar 11:24<\/span>; Jam 1:5-8<\/span>, for faith is the recognition of, and the committal of ourselves and our matters to, the faithfulness of God. <\/p>\n “Where the Jews were numerous, as at Thessalonica, they had usually a Synagogue, Act 17:1<\/span>; where they were few, as at Philippi, they had merely a proseuche, or ‘place of prayer,’ of much smaller dimensions, and commonly built by a river for the sake of the water necessary to the preliminary ablutions prescribed by Rabbinic tradition, Act 16:13<\/span>, Act 16:16<\/span>.” * [* From Notes on Thessalonians by Hogg and Vine, pp. 189,190.] <\/p>\n Pray, Prayer “to pray (to God),” is used with this meaning in 2Co 13:7; 2Co 13:9, RV, “pray” (AV, “wish”); Jam 5:16; 3Jo 1:2, RV, “pray” (AV, wish). 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