προσ-ευχή, -ῆς, ἡ

(προσεύχομαι), [in LXX chiefly for תְּפִלָּה ;]

__1. prayer to God: Mat.17:21 (WH, R, txt. om.) Mat.21:22, Mrk.9:29, Luk.22:45, Act.3:1 6:4 10:31, Rom.12:12, 1Co.7:5, Col.4:2; pl. Act.2:42 10:4, Rom.1:10, Eph.1:16 Col.4:12, 1Th.1:2, Phm 4 22, 1Pe.3:7 4:7, Rev.5:8 8:3-4; οἶκος προσευχῆς, Mat.21:13, Mrk.11:17, Luk.19:46" (LXX) ; π. καὶ δέησις, Eph.6:18, Php.4:6; pl. 1Ti.2:1 5:5; ἡ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, prayer to God (ef. Wis.16:28), Luk.6:12; πρὸς τ. θεόν, before ὑπέρ, Act.12:5; pl. Rom.15:30; Hebraistically (B1. § 38, 3), προσευχῇ προσεύχεσθαι, Jas.5:17 (EV, prayed fervently).

__2. a place of prayer: of a synagogue (3Ma.7:20, seel.; see Charles, APOT, i, 173; for other exx. see Kennedy, Sources, 114); of a place in the open (FlJ, Ant. xiv, 10, 23), Act.16:13, 16.†

SYN.: see: δέησις (AS)

prayer; prayer to God; a place of prayer