Word

προσευχή

proseuchḗ · G4335 · Greek · 36 occurrences

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Meanings

prayer

The act of speaking to or making requests of God

Examples
Matthew 21:13 And He said to them, “It is written: ‘MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a DEN OF ROBBERS.”
Matthew 21:22 “And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive it all.”
Mark 9:29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything except prayer.”
a place for prayer

(Derivative of προσεύχομαι ‘to pray,’) A place where people customarily meet to pray

Examples
Acts 16:13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were thinking that there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.
Acts 16:16 It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave woman who had a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing great profit to her masters by fortune-telling.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

12 occurrences in 4 groups

ἐγώI, we 4
σύyou 4
ἅγιοςholy 3
θεόςGod 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐγκόπτωto prevent 1
εἰσακούωto listen to 1
ἀναβαίνωto go up, to come up 1

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 2 groups

προσκαρτερέωto devote oneself to 3
εἰμίto be 2

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

θεόςGod 1
οὗwhere, wherever, in which 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅςwho, which, that 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

14 occurrences in 5 groups

ἐνin 9
ἐπίon 8
εἰςto 5
διάthrough 4
ἀπόfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

οἶκοςhouse, household 3
ὥραhour, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

δέησις déēsis · G1162 · request, plea, prayer: προσευχή is the general term for prayer, encompassing worship as well as petition, while δέησις specifically emphasizes the petitionary or supplicatory aspect of prayer. δέησις names a specific mode within the broader category προσευχή denotes.

In the other Testament 1 word

תְּפִלָּה tᵉphillâh · H8605 · prayer: תְּפִלָּה (tᵉphillâh, H8605) תְּפִלָּה is the direct Hebrew equivalent of προσευχή (proseuchḗ, G4335) προσευχή, both denoting prayer as an act of worship or supplication to God; the Greek term additionally extends by implication to physical prayer spaces (oratories/chapels), a metonymic sense not present in the Hebrew lemma's core denotation.

Semantic domains 2 entries

To pray, to speak to God, to ask God for, prayer33.178: The noun names the act of speaking to God. Jesus' teaching on faith uses this term: “And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive it all” (Matthew 21:22).
A place for prayer33.179: The same noun, used of a physical location, names a designated house or place set apart for prayer. Jesus' cleansing of the temple uses this term: “And He said to them, 'It is written: “MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER”; but you are making it a DEN OF ROBBERS'” (Matthew 21:13).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

εὔχομαι eúchomai · G2172 · to pray, to speak to God, to ask God for · 6×προσεύχομαι proseúchomai · G4336 · to pray, to speak to God, to ask God for · 86×προσευχήproseuchḗ · G4335εὐχή euchḗ · G2171 · prayer, vow · 3×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσευχῆς, ἡ (προσεύχομαι), the Sept. for תְּפִלָּה, equivalent to εὐχή πρός τόν Θεόν…

προσευχῆς, ἡ (προσεύχομαι), the Sept. for תְּפִלָּה, equivalent to εὐχή πρός τόν Θεόν (cf. πρός, IV.
1. prayer addressed to God: Mt 17:21 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mt 21:22; Mk 9:29; Lk 22:45; Acts 3:1; Acts 6:4; Acts 10:31; Rom 12:12; 1 Cor 7:5; Col 4:2; plural, Acts 2:42; Acts 10:4; Rom 1:10 (9); Eph 1:16; Col 4:12; 1 Thess 1:2; Phm 1:4, Phm 1:22; 1 Pet 3:7; 1 Pet 4:7; Rev 5:8; Rev 8:3, Rev 8:4 (where ταῖς προσευχαῖς is a dative commodi, for, in aid of, the prayers (Winers Grammar, § 31, 6 c.; cf. Green, p. 101f)); οἶκος προσευχῆς, a house devoted to the offering of prayer to God, Mt 21:13; Mk 11:17; Lk 19:46 (Isa 56:7; Isa 56:1 Macc. 7:37); προσευχή καί δέησις, Acts 1:14 Rec.; Eph 6:18; Phm 4:6 (1 Kgs 8:38; 2 Chr 6:29; 2 Chr 6:1 Macc. 7:37; on the distinction between the two words see δέησις); plural, 1 Tim 2:1; 1 Tim 5:5; ἡ προσευχή τοῦ Θεοῦ, prayer to God, Lk 6:12 (εὐχαριστία Θεοῦ, Wis. 16:28; cf. references in πίστις, 1 a.); πρός τόν Θεόν ὑπέρ (L T Tr WH περί) τίνος, Acts 12:5; plural Rom 15:30; προσευχή προσεύχεσθαι, a Hebraistic expression (cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 3; (Buttmann, § 133, 22 a.)), to pray fervently, Jas 5:17.
2. a place set apart or suited for the offering of prayer; i. e.
a. a synagogue (see συναγωγή, 2 b.): 3Macc. 7:20 (according to the reading προσευχήν; see Grimm's Commentary at the passage); Philo in Flaccum § 6 (also § 14); leg. ad Gaium §§ 20, 43, 46; Juvenal, sat. 1, 3, 296; συνάγονται πάντες εἰς τήν προσευχήν, μέγιστον οἴκημα πολύν ὄχλον ἐπιδέξασθαι δυνάμενον, Josephus, Vita §54.
b. a place in the open air where the Jews were accustomed to pray, outside of those cities where they had no synagogue; such places were situated upon the bank of a stream or the shore of the sea, where there was a supply of water for washing the hands before prayer: Acts 16:13, Acts 16:16; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 10, 23, cf. Epiphanius haer. 80, 1. Tertullian in his ad nationes 1, 13: makes mention of the orationes litorales of the Jews, and in his de jejuniis c. 16 says "Judaicum certe jejunium ubique celebratur, cure omissis templis per omne litus quocunque in aperto aliquando jam preces ad carlurn mittunt." (Josephus (c. Apion. 2, 2, 2) quotes Apion as representing Moses as offering αἴθριοι προσευχαί.) Cf. DeWette, Archäologie, § 242; (Schürer, Zeitgesch. § 27 vol. ii., p. 369ff). Not used by secular authors except in the passages cited above from Philo, Josephus, and Juvenal (to which add Cleomedes 71, 16; cf. Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions 2:1004 no. 2114 b. and 1005 no. 2114 bb. (A.D. 81), see Index under the word).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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Pray36 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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