Petition
מִשְׁאָלָהStrong’s H4862mishalah (mish-a-lah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “requests your” and “requests of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.”
Meaning
- Request, petition, desire
How it's translated
- requests your 1
- requests of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁאָלָה mishalah · petition
request, petition, desire
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.