Dictionaries :: Supplication

King James Dictionary

Supplication: Petition; an Expression of Need.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, SUPPLICATIONS, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men. (1 Timothy 2:1)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Supplication:

is always translated "supplication," or the plural, in the RV.
See PRAYER, B, No. 3.

Supplication:

is the feminine form of the adjective hiketerios, denoting "of a suppliant," and used as a noun, formerly "an olive branch" carried by a suppliant (hiketes), then later, "a supplication," used with No. 1 in Hbr 5:7. In the Sept., Job 40:22 (Eng. Vers. Job 41:3).