hiketērias

Strong’sG2428

supplication, entreaty

stem hiketēri-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἱκετήριος, -α, -ον

(< ἱκέτης, a suppliant), [in LXX: Jb 40:22(27), II Mac 9:18*;]

of a suppliant; as subst., ἡ ἱ. (sc. ῥάβδος),

1. in cl., an olive-branch, carried by a suppliant.

2. In late Gk. = ἱκεσία, supplication: pl., δεήσεις κ. ἱ., He 5:7.

SYN.: v.s. δέησις.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2428 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhik-et-ay-ree'-ah

intreaty

Fromfrom a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor);

King Jamessupplication.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἱκετ-ήριος,
poetry ἱκτήριος, α, ον, as adjective in the latter form only, of or fit for suppliants, ἱ. θησαυρός, of hair offered to a god, Refs 5th c.BC+; φωτῶν ἱκτήρια, ={φῶτας ἱκτηρίους}, Refs
II ἱκετηρία, poetry ἱκτηρία, Ionic dialect ἱκετηρίη (i.e. ῥάβδος), ἡ, olive-branch which the suppliant held in his hand as a symbol of his condition, λευκοστεφεῖς ἱκτηρίας Refs 4th c.BC+; ἱκετηρίην λαβεῖν, φέρειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of petitions laid before the Athenian people, ἱ. θεῖναι And.[same place], Refs 4th c.BC+, which is a later use,Refs; ὑπὲρ θυγατρὸς ἱ. τιθεμένη Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἱ. ἔθηκεν παρ᾽ ὑμῖν,= ἱκέτευσεν ὑμᾶς, Refs 4th c.BC+; later ἱ. πέμπειν, προβάλλεσθαι, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἱκετηρίας προσενέγκας, ἱκετηρίαν προσάγειν, NT+4th c.AD+, where the suppliant represents herself as the olive-branch, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ={ἱκεσία}, variant in Refs 5th c.BC+ad Ath.275c, Refs 3rd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

supplications1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hiketērias	hiketēriais
object accusative	hiketērian	hiketēriain1×ἱκετηρίας
direct address vocative	hiketēriar	hiketēriair
of, belonging to genitive	hiketēriau	hiketēriaiu
to, for dative	hiketēria	hiketēriai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hiketēristem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hiketēria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hiketēriain“supplications”objectaccusative plural1×

Hebrews 5:7“supplications”… tau sarkau autou deēsiain tē kai hiketēriain pros ton dunorōnton sōzarō auton ek …… offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.