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To pray

צְלָאStrong’s H6739

tsela (tse-la)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tsela is the Aramaic word usually translated “praying”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Daniel 6:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Pael) to pray
How it's translated
  • and praying 2

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

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1
  • Daniel 1

2 books in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

צְלָא tsela · to pray

(Pael) to pray Aramaic of tsa.la (צָלַע "to limp" H6760)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

PRAY, verb intransitive

[Latin precor; proco; this word belongs to the same family as preach and reproach; Heb. to bless, to reproach; rendered in, to curse; properly, to reproach, to rail at or upbraid. In Latin the word precor signifies to supplicate good or evil, and precis signifies a prayer and a curse. See Imprecate.]

  1. To ask with earnestness or zeal, as for a favor, or for something desirable; to entreat; to supplicate.“PRAY for them who despitefully use you and persecute you” Matthew 5:44
  2. To petition; to ask, as for a favor; as in application to a legislative body.
  3. In worship, to address the Supreme Being with solemnity and reverence, with adoration, confession of sins, supplication for mercy, and thanksgiving for blessings received.“When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly” Matthew 6:6
  4. I pray that is, I pray you tell me, or let me know, is a common mode of introducing a question.
All definitions and other forms of “pray”

    PRAY, verb transitive

    To supplicate; to entreat; to urge.

    1. “We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20
    2. In worship, to supplicate; to implore; to ask with reverence and humility.“Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee” Acts 8:22
    3. To petition.
    4. To ask or intreat in ceremony or form.

    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.