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)