Strong's Lexicon
G2428 — ἱκετηρία
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G2428 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἱκετηρία |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor) |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | hiketeria |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | hik-et-ay-ree'-ah |
| Meaning: | 1. intreaty |
| KJV Renderings: | supplication |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἱκετήριος, ἱκετηρία, ἱκετηριον (ἱκέτης a suppliant), pertaining to a suppliant, fit for a suppliant; ἡ ἱκετηρία, as a substantive, namely, ἐλαία or ῤάβδος;
1. an olive-branch; for suppliants approached the one whose aid they would implore holding an olive-branch entwined with white wool and fillets, to signify that they came as suppliants (cf. Trench, § 51, under the end): λαμβάνειν ἱκετηριαν, Herodotus 5, 51; ἱκετηριαν τιθέναι or προβάλλεσθαι παρά τίνι, etc.
2. equivalent to ἱκεσία, supplication (Isocrates, p. 186 d. vat.; Polybius; 2Ma 9:18): plural joined with δεήσεις (Polybius 3, 112, 8; singular Job 40:22, the Sept.), Heb 5:7.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἱκετηρία (supplication)
Hebrews 5:7
- KJV: Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared
- GK: ος εν ταις ημέραις της σαρκός αυτού δεήσεις τε και ικετηρίας προς τον δυνάμενον σωζείν αυτόν εκ θανάτου μετά κραυγής ισχυράς και δακρύων προσενέγκας και εισακουσθείς από της ευλαβείας
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