Prayer
תְּפִלָּהStrong’s H8605tephillah (te-phil-lah)
Appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tephillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “prayer my”, “prayer” and “prayer of”. It appears in 70 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:”
Meaning
- Prayerpray a prayer · house of prayer · hear prayer · in Ps titles (of poetic or liturgical prayer)
How it's translated
- prayer my 20
- prayer 9
- prayer of 8
- a prayer 7
- the prayer 6
- prayer their 6
- prayer your 4
- and prayer his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 29
- 2 Chronicles 11
- 1 Kings 7
- Isaiah 4
- Nehemiah 3
- Proverbs 3
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:17In contextNow therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
- Daniel 9:21In contextYea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
- 2 Samuel 7:27For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
- 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 8:29That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
- 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:
All 70 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
תְּפִלָּה tephillah · prayer
1) prayer 1a) prayer 1b) pray a prayer 1c) house of prayer 1d) hear prayer 1e) in Ps titles (of poetic or liturgical prayer)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prayer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRA'YER, noun
In a general sense, the act of asking for a favor, and particularly with earnestness.
- In worship, a solemn address to the Supreme Being, consisting of adoration, or an expression of our sense of God's glorious perfections, confession of our sins, supplication for mercy and forgiveness, intercession for blessings on others, and thanksgiving, or an expression of gratitude to God for his mercies and benefits.
- A formula of church service, or of worship, public or private.
- Practice of supplication.
- That part of a memorial or petition to a public body, which specifies the request or thing desired to be done or granted, as distinct from the recital of facts or reasons for the grant.
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.