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3.
(
!
, 1162), primarily “a wanting, a need” (akin to A, No. 4), then, “an
asking, entreaty, supplication,” in the NT is always addressed to God and always
rendered “supplication” or “supplications” in the
RV
; in the
KJV
“prayer,” or “prayers,” in
Luke 1:13; 2:37; 5:33; Rom. 10:1; 2 Cor. 1:11; 9:14; Phil. 1:4 (in the 2nd part, “request”);
1:19; 2 Tim. 1:3; Heb. 5:7; Jas. 5:16; 1 Pet. 3:12.
4.
$@
(
+
, 1783) is translated “prayer” in 1 Tim. 4:5; see
INTERCESSION
.
Notes:
(1)
8 $
is used of “prayer” in general;
stresses the sense of need;
it is used sometimes of request from man to man.
(2) In the papyri
$@
is the regular word for a petition to a superior. For the
synonymous word
see
PETITION
; for
, Heb. 5:7, see
SUPPLICATION
.
(3) “Prayer is properly addressed to God the Father Matt. 6:6; John 16:23; Eph. 1:17;
3:14, and the Son, Acts 7:59; 2 Cor. 12:8; but in no instance in the NT is prayer
addressed to the Holy Spirit distinctively, for whereas the Father is in Heaven, Matt. 6:9,
and the Son is at His right hand, Rom. 8:34, the Holy Spirit is in and with the believers,
John 14:16, 17.
“Prayer is to be offered in the Name of the Lord Jesus, John 14:13, that is, the prayer
must accord with His character, and must be presented in the same spirit of dependence
and submission that marked Him, Matt. 11:26; Luke 22:42.
“The Holy Spirit, being the sole interpreter of the needs of the human heart, makes
His intercession therein; and inasmuch as prayer is impossible to man apart from His
help, Rom. 8:26, believers are exhorted to pray at all seasons in the Spirit, Eph. 6:18; cf.
Jude 20, and Jas. 5:16, the last clause of which should probably be read ‘the inwrought
[i.e., by the Holy Spirit] supplication of righteous man availeth much’ (or ‘greatly
prevails’
$
, as in Acts 19:16, 20).
“None the less on this account is the understanding to be engaged in prayer, 1 Cor.
14:15, and the will, Col. 4:12; Acts 12:5 (where ‘earnestly’ is, lit., ‘stretched out’) and so
in Luke 22:44.
“Faith is essential to prayer, Matt. 21:22; Mark 11:24; Jas. 1:5-8, for faith is the
recognition of, and the committal of ourselves and our matters to, the faithfulness of God.
“Where the Jews were numerous, as at Thessalonica, they had usually a Synagogue,
Acts 17:1; where they were few, as at Philippi, they had merely a
$
, or ‘place of
prayer,’ of much smaller dimensions, and commonly built by a river for the sake of the
water necessary to the preliminary ablutions prescribed by Rabbinic tradition, Acts 16:13,
16.”*
PREACH, PREACHING
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
' &
, 2097) is almost always used of “the good news”
concerning the Son of God as proclaimed in the gospel [exceptions are e.g., Luke 1:19; 1
Thess. 3:6, in which the phrase “to bring (or show) good (or glad) tidings” does not refer
to the gospel]; Gal. 1:8 (2nd part). With reference to the gospel the phrase “to bring, or
declare, good, or glad, tidings” is used in Acts 13:32; Rom. 10:15; Heb. 4:2.
* From
Notes on Thessalonians
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 189, 190.