Aramaic

Petition

בָּעוּStrong’s H1159

bau (ba-u)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Bau is the Aramaic word usually translated “petition” and “petition his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.”

Daniel 6:7 KJV

Meaning

Petition, request
Prayer (always in Jewish liturgy)

How it's translated

a petition 1
petition his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 6:13In contextThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

Aramaic dictionary

בָּעוּ bau · petition

1) petition, request 2) prayer (always in Jewish liturgy)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “petition” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PETI'TION, noun

[Latin petitio, from peto, to ask, properly to urge or press.]

In a general sense, a request, supplication or prayer; but chiefly and appropriately, a solemn or formal supplication; a prayer addressed by a person to the Supreme Being, for something needed or desired, or a branch or particular article of prayer.
A formal request or supplication, verbal or written; particularly, a written supplication from an inferior to a superior, either to a single person clothed with power, or to a legislative or other body, soliciting some favor, grant, right or mercy.
The paper containing a supplication or solicitation.

All definitions and other forms of “petition”

PETI'TION, verb transitive

To make a request to; to ask from; to solicit; particularly, to make supplication to a superior for some favor or right; as, to petition the legislature; to petition a court of chancery.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.