Words the Bible translates as entreat
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥalahחָלָהto entreat someone's favor: to soften a superior's face, to plead and appease
+1 more meaning
- to become sick, weak, or wounded: to lose strength, whether by illness, exhaustion, or injury
- deomaiδέομαιto make an earnest request out of need: to ask, beg, or plead for something one lacks
- pagaפָּגַעto approach someone with a request: to entreat, urge, plead, or intercede
+3 more meanings
- to meet or come upon someone or something, whether by chance or on purpose
- of a border or boundary: to reach, touch, or run up to a place
- to fall upon someone: to attack, strike down, or kill
- atarעָתַרto plead urgently with God, and (of God) to be moved by that pleading and grant it
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