King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G2428
Transliteration: hiketēria
Phonetic Spelling: (hik-et-ay-ree'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: supplication
Meaning: supplication
ἱκετήριος, ἱκετηρία, ἱκετηριον (ἱκέτης a suppliant), pertaining to a suppliant, fit for a suppliant; ἡ ἱκετηρία, as a substantive, namely, ἐλαία or ῤάβδος;
Word Summary
hiketēria: supplication
Original Word: ἱκετηρίαTransliteration: hiketēria
Phonetic Spelling: (hik-et-ay-ree'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: supplication
Meaning: supplication
Strong's Concordance
supplication. From a derivative of the base of hikanos (through the idea of approaching for a favor); intreaty -- supplication.
see GREEK hikanos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2428: ἱκετήριοςἱκετήριος, 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; 2 Macc. 9:18): plural joined with δεήσεις (Polybius 3, 112, 8; singular Job 40:22, the Sept.), Hebrews 5:7.