Lexical Summary enteuxis: a petition, supplication Original Word: ἔντευξιςTransliteration: enteuxis Phonetic Spelling: (ent'-yook-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a petition, supplication Meaning: a petition, supplication Strong's Concordance intercession, prayer. From entugchano; an interview, i.e. (specially) supplication -- intercession, prayer. see GREEK entugchano Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1783: ἔντευξιςἔντευξις, ἐντεύξεως, ἡ (ἐντυγχάνω, which see), a falling in with, meeting with (αἱ τοῖς λῃσταῖς ἐντεύξεις, Plato, politic., p. 298 d.); an interview, a coming together, to visit, converse, or for any other cause; that for which an interview is held, a conference or conversation (Polybius, Diodorus, others), a petition, supplication (Diodorus 16, 55; Josephus, Antiquities 15, 3, 8; Plutarch, Tib. Gracch. 11); used of prayer to God: 1 Timothy 4:5; plural (A. V. intercessions), 1 Timothy 2:1 (Plutarch, Numbers 14 ποιεῖσθαι τάς πρός τό θεῖον ἐντεύξεις). (Synonym: see δέησις, at the end.) |
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