2001 Translation

DEĒSEIS, deēseis

Sounds Like: DEH-ee-seess

Translations: prayers, supplications, entreaties

From the root: ΔΕΗΣΙΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a specific type of prayer, often characterized by a sense of need or urgency, a humble request, or an earnest entreaty. It implies a petition made to a higher power, typically God, out of a deep sense of dependence or a desire for something specific. It is often used in conjunction with other words for prayer, emphasizing the aspect of humble pleading.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1162 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 13:6

Codex Sinaiticus

• Sirach — 35:16
• Luke — 5:33
• 1 Timothy — 2:1
• Hebrews — 5:7

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 6:148
• Book 6 — 3:42
• Book 10 — 11:242
• Book 18 — 6:191, 8:263
• Book 19 — 1:24

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 10:9, 14:16
• Book Four — 2:32
• Book Seven — 5:12

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 63:329

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 11:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Daniel (Theodotion) — 9:3
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 9:17
• Enoch — 13:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 5:33
• 1 Timothy — 2:1
• Hebrews — 5:7

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΗΣΙΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΔΕΗΣΕΙ — to a request, to a petition, to a prayer, to a supplication
• ΔΕΗΣΕΙ' — to prayer, to entreaty, to supplication, to petition
• ΔΕΗΣΕΙΝ — prayer, a prayer, supplication, entreaty
• ΔΕΗΣΕΣΙ — (to) prayers, (to) supplications, (to) entreaties
• ΔΕΗΣΕΣΙΝ — to prayer, to entreaty, to supplication
• ΔΕΗΣΕΩΝ — of prayers, of supplications, of entreaties
• ΔΕΗΣΕΩΣ — of prayer, of entreaty, of supplication
• ΔΕΗΣΙ — prayer, a prayer, entreaty, supplication, a supplication, (to) prayer, (to) entreaty, (to) supplication
• ΔΕΗΣΙΝ — prayer, a prayer, supplication, an entreaty
• ΔΕΗΣΙΣ — prayer, a prayer, supplication, entreaty

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