προσεύχομαι
to pray
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4336 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 6 distinct verses. 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.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 11:4 προσευχόμενος pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
- 1 Corinthians 11:5 προσευχομένη pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg fem But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
- 1 Corinthians 11:13 προσεύχεσθαι pres mid/pass.dep inf Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
- 1 Corinthians 14:13 προσευχέσθω pres mid/pass.dep impv 3sg Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 14:14 προσεύχωμαι προσεύχεται pres mid/pass.dep subj 1sg pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
- 1 Corinthians 14:15 προσεύξομαι προσεύξομαι fut mid.dep ind 1sg fut mid.dep ind 1sg What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
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.
προσευχομαι — transliterated proseúchomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to pray.” Debuting at Matthew 5:44, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 80 verses — moderately common. It shares a root with προς, προσαγορευω and προσαγω. 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 G4336 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 →
- 80
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 80 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #200
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 200 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 80 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 80 distinct verses.
- Gospels 41 verses · 51%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 34 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 17 verses · 21%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 1%
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: Pray 28×, Prayed 18×, Praying 11×
- American Standard Version: Pray 29×, Prayed 13×, Praying 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pray 33×, Prayed 11×, Praying 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pray 30×, Praying 19×, He prayed 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4336 across 89 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4336 across 87 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 G4336 across 83 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4336 across 93 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- to offer prayers, to pray
Word origin
Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).
Forms in the corpus
The 29 distinct written forms G4336 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4336, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- προσαγορευω prosagoreúō G4316 to address
- προσαγω proságō G4317 to bring
- προσαιτεω prosaitéō G4319 to ask alms
- προσαναβαινω prosanabaínō G4320 to go up higher
- προσαναλισκω prosanalískō G4321 to spend additionally
- προσαναπληροω prosanaplēróō G4322 to fill up
- προσανατιθημι prosanatíthēmi G4323 to lay upon
- προσαπειλεω prosapeiléō G4324 to threaten further
- προσδαπαναω prosdapanáō G4325 to spend besides
- προσδεομαι prosdéomai G4326 to need additionally
- προσδεχομαι prosdéchomai G4327 to receive to oneself
- προσδοκαω prosdokáō G4328 to expect
- προσεαω proseáō G4330 to permit approach
- προσεγγιζω prosengízō G4331 to approach
- προσεδρευω prosedreúō G4332 to sit near
- προσεργαζομαι prosergázomai G4333 to work besides
- προσερχομαι prosérchomai G4334 to draw near
- προσεχω proséchō G4337 to attend to
- προσηλοω prosēlóō G4338 to nail to
- προσκαιρος próskairos G4340 temporary
- προσκαλεομαι proskaléomai G4341 to call to
- προσκαρτερεω proskarteréō G4342 to adhere to
- προσκεφαλαιον proskephálaion G4344 pillow
- προσκληροω prosklēróō G4345 to allot
+27 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 54 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word προσευχομαι appears 79 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 77 verses in 15 books.
- 79
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 77
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 20:7 προςεὔχομαι
- Exodus 10:17 προςεὔχομαι
- Judges 13:8 προςεὔχομαι
- 1 Samuel 1:10 προςεὔχομαι
- 2 Samuel 7:27 προςεὔχομαι
- 1 Kings 8:28 προςεὔχομαι
- 2 Kings 4:33 προςεὔχομαι
- 1 Chronicles 17:25 προςεὔχομαι
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 προςεὔχομαι
- Ezra 6:10 προςεὔχομαι
- Psalms 5:3 προςεὔχομαι
- Isaiah 16:12 προςεὔχομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4336) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 77. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 20:7 προςεὔχομαι Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 20:17 προςεὔχομαι Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
- Exodus 10:17 προςεὔχομαι Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
- Judges 13:8 προςεὔχομαι Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.
- 1 Samuel 1:10 προςεὔχομαι She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore.
- 1 Samuel 1:12 προςεὔχομαι It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth.
- 1 Samuel 1:26 προςεὔχομαι She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 1:27 προςεὔχομαι For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:
- 1 Samuel 2:25 προςεὔχομαι If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
- 1 Samuel 7:5 προςεὔχομαι Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 8:6 προςεὔχομαι But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 12:19 προςεὔχομαι All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
- 1 Samuel 12:23 προςεὔχομαι Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 προςεὔχομαι The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 προςεὔχομαι 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 8:28 προςεὔχομαι Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;
- 1 Kings 8:29 προςεὔχομαι 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 8:30 προςεὔχομαι Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:33 προςεὔχομαι When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house:
- 1 Kings 8:35 προςεὔχομαι When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
- 1 Kings 8:42 προςεὔχομαι (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;
- 1 Kings 8:44 προςεὔχομαι If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
- 1 Kings 8:48 προςεὔχομαι if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
- 1 Kings 8:54 προςεὔχομαι 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.
- 2 Kings 4:33 προςεὔχομαι He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 6:17 προςεὔχομαι Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
- 2 Kings 6:18 προςεὔχομαι When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
- 2 Kings 19:20 προςεὔχομαι Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you].
- 1 Chronicles 17:25 προςεὔχομαι For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 προςεὔχομαι 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 προςεὔχομαι 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 6:21 προςεὔχομαι Listen you to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
- 2 Chronicles 6:24 προςεὔχομαι If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
- 2 Chronicles 6:26 προςεὔχομαι When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
- 2 Chronicles 6:32 προςεὔχομαι Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 προςεὔχομαι If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 προςεὔχομαι if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
- 2 Chronicles 7:1 προςεὔχομαι Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 προςεὔχομαι if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
- 2 Chronicles 30:18 προςεὔχομαι For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
- 2 Chronicles 32:20 προςεὔχομαι Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 32:24 προςεὔχομαι In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
- 2 Chronicles 33:13 προςεὔχομαι He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
- Ezra 6:10 προςεὔχομαι that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
- Ezra 10:1 προςεὔχομαι Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
- Ezra 11:4 προςεὔχομαι
- Ezra 11:6 προςεὔχομαι
- Ezra 12:4 προςεὔχομαι
- Ezra 14:3 προςεὔχομαι
- Psalms 5:3 προςεὔχομαι Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4336) 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.
