Supplication
תְּחִנָּהStrong’s H8467techinnah (te-chin-nah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Techinnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “supplication my”, “supplication their” and “supplication his”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;”
Meaning
- Favour, supplication, supplication for favourfavour · supplication for favour
How it's translated
- supplication my 5
- supplication their 4
- supplication his 3
- supplication of 3
- favor 2
- supplication 2
- supplication your 2
- and the supplication 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 8
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Jeremiah 5
- Psalms 3
- Joshua 1
- Ezra 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 11:20For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
- 1 Kings 8:28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
- 1 Kings 8:30And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 1 Kings 8:45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Hebrew dictionary
תְּחִנָּה techinnah · supplication
1) favour, supplication, supplication for favour 1a) favour 1b) supplication for favour
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “supplication” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUPPLICA'TION, noun
[Latin supplicatio.]
- Entreaty; humble and earnest prayer in worship.
- Petition; earnest request.
- In Roman antiquity, a religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success.
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.