בָּעוּ
bâʻûw · H1159 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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request, prayer
Action by which humans make a polite request to someone in authority or to a deity
ExamplesDaniel 6:7 “All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who offers a prayer to any god or person besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.
Daniel 6:13 Then they responded and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps offering his prayer three times a day.”
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּעָאto ask, to seek 2
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
- תְּחִנָּה tᵉchinnâh · H8467 · mercy, begging for mercy, supplication
- תְּחִנָּה denotes a supplication or petition for favor, often in a context of seeking grace or mercy, and can serve as a near-synonym for בָּעוּ when the petition involves entreaty.
In the other Testament 2 words
- δέησις déēsis · G1162 · request, plea, prayer
- δέησις is the standard Greek noun for a petition or request, particularly in prayer contexts, and serves as the natural translation equivalent for the Hebrew בָּעוּ when rendering 'petition' into Greek.
- αἴτημα aítēma · G155 · request, demand, what was being asked for
- αἴτημα denotes a specific request or petition made to another, closely paralleling the sense of בָּעוּ as a formal petition or thing requested.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Daniel 6:7 recounts that the commissioners and satraps told the king, “all the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who offers a prayer to any god or person besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be thrown into the lions' den.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1159. bau בָּעוּ (K§ 61, 4) noun feminine petition (ᵑ7 Syriac); — absolute ׳ב Dan 6:8;…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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