G2428
ἱκετηρία
supplication
ἱκετήριος, -α, -ον (ἱκέτης, a suppliant), [in LXX: Job.40:22, 2Ma.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., Heb.5:7 SYN.: see: δέησις (AS)
The KJV translates G2428 in the following manner:
supplications (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
ἱκετηρία — hiketēría
ἱκετήριος, ἱκετηρία, ἱκετηριον (ἱκέτης a suppliant), pertaining to a suppliant, fit for a suppliant; ἡ ἱκετηρία, as a substantive, namely, ἐλαία or ῤάβδος;
1. an olive-branch; for suppliants approached the one whose aid they would implore holding an olive-branch entwined with white wool and fillets, to signify that they came as suppliants (cf. Trench, § 51, under the end): λαμβάνειν ἱκετηριαν, Herodotus 5, 51; ἱκετηριαν τιθέναι or προβάλλεσθαι παρά τίνι, etc.
2. equivalent to ἱκεσία, supplication (Isocrates, p. 186 d. vat.; Polybius; 2Ma 9:18): plural joined with δεήσεις (Polybius 3, 112, 8; singular Job 40:22, the Sept.), Heb 5:7.
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