Word study · Hebrew
פָּלַל
pa.lalH6419to pray
Used 84 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- to intervene, interpose, pray
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) to intervene, interpose, pray
- 1a) (Piel) to mediate, judge
- 1b)(Hithpael)
- 1b1) to intercede
- 1b2) to pray
Same idea, other words · Prayer and worship
Worship is bowing and serving, so the same words can describe prayer, homage and work done for God.
Where it appears
- Genesis3
- Numbers3
- Deuteronomy2
- 1 Samuel11
- 2 Samuel1
- 1 Kings10
- 2 Kings6
- 1 Chronicles1
- 2 Chronicles14
- Ezra1
- Nehemiah4
- Job2
- Psalms4
- Isaiah7
- Jeremiah10
- Ezekiel1
- Daniel2
- Jonah2
Every use · 51–84 of 84 · BSB
And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.
So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.
Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him; may they bless him all day long.
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
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