Intreat, Intreaty - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Intreat, Intreaty

[ A-1,Verb,G2065, erotao ]
to ask, beseech," is rendered "intreat," e.g., in Philippians 4:3, AV (RV, "beseech"). See ASK.

[ A-2,Verb,G3870, parakaleo ]
"to beseech, comfort, exhort," is rendered by the verb "to intreat" in Luke 8:31, RV, "intreated" (AV, "besought"); Luke 15:28; Acts 9:38, RV, "intreating" (AV, "desiring"); Acts 28:20, RV (AV, "called for"); 1 Corinthians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 9:5, RV (AV, "exhort"); 2 Corinthians 10:1, RV (AV, "beseech"); 1 Timothy 5:1, AV (RV, "exhort"). See BESEECH.

[ A-3,Verb,G3868, paraiteomai ]
"to ask to be excused, to beg," etc., is rendered "intreated" in Hebrews 12:19, See AVOID.

[ B-1,Adjective,G2138, eupeithes ]
"ready to obey" (eu, "well," peithomai, "to obey, to be persuaded"), "complaint," is translated "easy to be intreated" in James 3:17, said of the widsom that is from above.

[ C-1,Noun,G3874, paraklesis ]
"an appeal, a comfort, exhortation," etc., is translated "intreaty" in 2 Corinthians 8:4.

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