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# תְּפִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8605

**prayer** — used 77 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

prayer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8605/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּפִלָּה: n.f. prayer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8605/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prayer;—ת׳ Is 1:15 +, cstr. תְּפִלַּת ψ 80:5 +; sf. תְּפִלָּתִי 4:2 +, etc.; pl. תְּפִלּוֹת 72:20;— prayer, 1 K 8:38 = 2 Ch 6:29; Is 1:15 ψ 35:13; 80:5 +. pray a prayer, הִתְפ׳ ת׳ 2 S 7:27; 1 K 8:54 (cf. v 28, 29 = 2 Ch 6:19, 20); דִּבֶּר בַּתּ׳ Dn 9:21; specif. of intercession, נשׂא ת׳, c. בְּעַד in behalf of 2 K 19:4 = Is 37:4; Je 7:16; 11:14. ת׳ אֶל־אֱלֹהִים 2 Ch 33:18, לְאֵל ψ 42:9, cf. 69:14; c. vb. + לפני 88:3; 141:2; תּ׳ תְּקַדְּמֶ֑ךָּ 88:14. בית ת׳ Is 56:7(×2) house of prayer (temple); c. vb. + אֶל־י׳ + אל־היכל Jon 2:8; c. vb. + למעון קדשׁו 2 Ch 30:27. hear prayer is ת׳ (אֶת־) שׁמע 1 K 8:45, 49 = 2 Ch 6:35, 39, 1 K 9:3 ψ 4:2; 39:13 + 9 times; שׁמע אֶל־ת׳ 1 K 8:28, 29 = 2 Ch 6:19, 20; Ne 1:6; Dn 9:17; פנה אל ת׳ 1 K 8:28 = 2 Ch 6:19, ψ 102:18; אָזְנֶיךָ קַשֻּׁבוֹת לת׳ 2 Ch 6:40; 7:15, cf. Ne 1:11 (אֶל), הַקְשִׁיבָה ת׳ ψ 61:2; הִקְשִׁיב בְּקוֹל ת׳ 66:19; הַאֲזִינָה ת׳ 17:1; 55:2; 86:6; לקח ת׳ 6:10; cf. 66:20; 102:18b. in ψ-titles, poetic, liturgical prayer ψ 17:1; 86:1; 90:1; 102:1; 142:1 Hb 3:1; of Davidic Psalter, תפלות דוד ψ 72:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 51 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: prayer (52); the prayer (10); a prayer (9).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.20/#tree)

כָּלּ֥וּ תְפִלּ֑וֹת דָּ֝וִ֗ד בֶּן־יִשָֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* they.are.finished the.prayers of.David the.son of.Jesse

*JPS 1917:* The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

[Psalms 65:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.3/#tree)

שֹׁמֵ֥עַ תְּפִלָּ֑ה עָ֝דֶ֗יךָ כָּל־בָּשָׂ֥ר יָבֹֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* O.\[you.who\].hear prayer to you all flesh they.will.come

*JPS 1917:* O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee doth all flesh come.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8605.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8605/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).