† προσ-ευχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< προσεύχομαι), [in LXX chiefly for תְּפִלָּה;]
1. prayer to God: Mt 17:21 (WH, R, txt., om.) 21:22, Mk 9:29, Lk 22:45, Ac 3:16:410:31, Ro 12:12, I Co 7:5, Col 4:2; pl., Ac 2:4210:4, Ro 1:10, Eph 1:16, Col 4:12, I Th 1:2, Phm 4, 22, I Pe 3:74:7, Re 5:88:3, 4; οἶκος προσευχῆς, Mt 21:13, Mk 11:17, Lk 19:46 (LXX); π. καὶ δέησις, Eph 6:18, Phl 4:6; pl., I Ti 2:15:5; ἡ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, prayer to God (cf. Wi 16:28), Lk 6:12; πρὸς τ. θεόν, seq. ὑπέρ, Ac 12:5; pl., Ro 15:30; Hebraistically (Bl., § 38, 3), προσευχῇ προσεύχεσθαι, Ja 5:17 (EV, prayed fervently).
2. a place of prayer: of a synagogue (III Mac 7:20, v.l.; v. Charles, APOT, i, 173; for other exx., v. Kennedy, Sources, 114); of a place in the open (FlJ, Ant., xiv, 10, 23), Ac 16:13, 16.†
SYN.: v.s. δέησις.