προσευχή
prayer
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 10 times (28%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 6 times (17%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 6 times (17%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine 5 times (14%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 3 times (8%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (6%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 2 times (6%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 36 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4335 appears — 36 distinct verses across 15 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 9:29 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
- Mark 11:17 προσευχῆς n gen sg fem He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 6:12 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
- Luke 19:46 προσευχῆς n gen sg fem saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"
- Luke 22:45 προσευχῆς n gen sg fem When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
Acts 9 verses
- Acts 1:14 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- Acts 2:42 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
- Acts 3:1 προσευχῆς n gen sg fem Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
- Acts 6:4 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
- Acts 10:4 προσευχαί n nom pl fem He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
- Acts 10:31 προσευχὴ n nom sg fem and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
- Acts 12:5 προσευχὴ n nom sg fem Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
- Acts 16:13 προσευχὴν n acc sg fem On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
- Acts 16:16 προσευχὴν n acc sg fem It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
Romans 3 verses
- Romans 1:10 προσευχῶν n gen pl fem requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
- Romans 12:12 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
- Romans 15:30 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 2 verses
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 4:2 προσευχῇ n dat sg fem Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
- Colossians 4:12 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 2 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:1 προσευχάς n acc pl fem I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
- 1 Timothy 5:5 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
Philemon 2 verses
James 1 verse
1 Peter 2 verses
- 1 Peter 3:7 προσευχὰς n acc pl fem You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
- 1 Peter 4:7 προσευχάς n acc pl fem But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 5:8 προσευχαὶ n nom pl fem Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- Revelation 8:3 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
- Revelation 8:4 προσευχαῖς n dat pl fem The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, προσευχη (proseuchḗ) means “prayer.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 21:13. It turns up in 36 verses across 15 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Acts (25%), then Luke and Romans. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4335 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 36
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 36 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #406
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 406 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 36 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 36 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 39%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 33%
- Gospels 7 verses · 19%
- Johannine 3 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 8%
- Revelation 3 verses · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Prayer 21×, Prayers 14×
- American Standard Version: Prayer 17×, Prayers 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Prayer 20×, Prayers 12×, Praying 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prayer 19×, Prayers 16×, Place of prayer 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4335 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4335 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4335 across 36 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4335 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- prayer addressed to God
- a place set apart or suited for the offering of prayer
Word origin
Derived from προσευχομαι (proseúchomai) (G4336) — to pray.
From G4336 ; prayer ( worship ); by implication an oratory ( chapel ): - X pray earnestly prayer.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G4335 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προσευχῇ proseuchē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 21:22 | 10 |
| προσευχαῖς proseuchaîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 2:42 | 6 |
| προσευχῆς proseuchē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 21:13 | 6 |
| προσευχῶν proseuchō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Romans 1:10 | 5 |
| προσευχάς proseuchás | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Timothy 2:1 | 2 |
| προσευχὴ proseuchḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 10:31 | 2 |
| προσευχὴν proseuchḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 16:13 | 2 |
| προσευχαί proseuchaí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 10:4 | 1 |
| προσευχαὶ proseuchaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 5:8 | 1 |
| προσευχὰς proseuchàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Peter 3:7 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word προσευχη appears 68 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 63 verses in 13 books.
- 68
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 63
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 7:27 προσευχή
- 1 Kings 8:29 προσευχή
- 2 Kings 19:4 προσευχή
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 προσευχή
- Ezra 11:6 προσευχή
- Psalms 4:2 προσευχή
- Proverbs 28:9 προσευχή
- Isaiah 38:5 προσευχή
- Jeremiah 11:14 προσευχή
- Lamentations 3:8 προσευχή
- Daniel 9:3 προσευχή
- Jonah 2:8 προσευχή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4335) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 63. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 προσευχή For you, Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
- 1 Kings 8:29 προσευχή that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
- 1 Kings 8:38 προσευχή whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, [or] by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 1 Kings 8:45 προσευχή then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:54 προσευχή It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
- 1 Kings 9:3 προσευχή Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
- 2 Kings 19:4 προσευχή It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
- 2 Kings 20:5 προσευχή Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 προσευχή Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;
- 2 Chronicles 6:20 προσευχή that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.
- 2 Chronicles 6:29 προσευχή whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 2 Chronicles 6:35 προσευχή then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
- 2 Chronicles 6:39 προσευχή then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
- 2 Chronicles 7:12 προσευχή Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
- 2 Chronicles 7:15 προσευχή Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27 προσευχή Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 33:18 προσευχή Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 προσευχή His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
- Ezra 11:6 προσευχή
- Ezra 11:11 προσευχή
- Psalms 4:2 προσευχή You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
- Psalms 6:10 προσευχή May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
- Psalms 16:1 προσευχή Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
- Psalms 34:13 προσευχή Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking lies.
- Psalms 38:13 προσευχή But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
- Psalms 41:9 προσευχή Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate bread with me, Has lifted up his heel against me.
- Psalms 53:4 προσευχή Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?
- Psalms 54:2 προσευχή Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
- Psalms 60:2 προσευχή You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, For it quakes.
- Psalms 64:3 προσευχή Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,
- Psalms 65:20 προσευχή
- Psalms 68:14 προσευχή When the Almighty scattered kings in her, It snowed on Zalmon.
- Psalms 79:5 προσευχή How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Psalms 83:9 προσευχή Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
- Psalms 85:1 προσευχή Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Psalms 85:6 προσευχή Won't you revive us again, That your people may rejoice in you?
- Psalms 87:3 προσευχή Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
- Psalms 87:14 προσευχή
- Psalms 89:1 προσευχή I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- Psalms 101:1 προσευχή I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
- Psalms 101:2 προσευχή I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
- Psalms 101:18 προσευχή
- Psalms 108:7 προσευχή God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
- Psalms 140:2 προσευχή Those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
- Psalms 140:5 προσευχή The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
- Psalms 141:1 προσευχή Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
- Psalms 142:1 προσευχή I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
- Proverbs 28:9 προσευχή He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
- Isaiah 38:5 προσευχή Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
- Isaiah 38:9 προσευχή The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4335) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
