Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8605
תְּפִלָּה
tephillahtef-il-law'
prayer
72 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tᵉphillâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8605is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 45spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8605
intercession, supplication; by implication, a hymn
The King James renders it: prayer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tephillah is rendered "prayer". It stands 72 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Twenty-seven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 7:27For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- The Greek text spells it forty-five different ways.
The first use
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
2 Samuel 7:27הַתְּפִלָּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- prayer my20
- prayer9
- prayer of8
- prayer their6
- the prayer6
- prayer your4
- and prayer his3
- and prayer my3
- a prayer2
- and a prayer2
- and prayer of2
- to prayer of2
and 5 more, 72 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תְּפוֹצָה | tephotsah | dispersion | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 72, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
45 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַתְּפִלָּ֔ה4
- תְּפִלָּתִ֑י4
- תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃4
- תְּפִלַּ֣ת3
- תְפִלָּתִ֑י3
- תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָ3
- תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם3
- וּתְפִלַּ֖ת2
- וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹ2
- וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗י2
- לִתְפִלַּ֖ת2
- תְפִלָּ֔ה2
and 33 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular20HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular12HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular6HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2HRd/Ncfsa
2 Samuel
one use
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- הַתְּפִלָּ֖הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
1 Kings
eight uses
Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
- תְּפִלַּ֧תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
- הַתְּפִלָּ֔הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- הַתְּפִלָּ֔הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- תְּפִלָּ֣הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
- תְּפִלָּתָ֖םtefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
- תְּפִלָּתָ֖םtefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
- הַתְּפִלָּ֥הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- תְּפִלָּתְךָ֣tefilatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: prayer your
2 Kings
two uses
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- תְפִלָּ֔הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
- תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָtefilatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: prayer your
2 Chronicles
twelve uses
Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.
- תְּפִלַּ֧תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
- הַתְּפִלָּ֔הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- הַתְּפִלָּ֔הhatefilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the prayer
then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- תְּפִלָּ֣הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
- תְּפִלָּתָ֖םtefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
- תְּפִלָּתָם֙tefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
- לִתְפִלַּ֖תlitfilatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to prayer of
the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
- תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָtefilatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: prayer your
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
- לִתְפִלַּ֖תlitfilatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to prayer of
Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard their voice, and their prayer came into His holy dwelling place in heaven.
- תְפִלָּתָ֛םtefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
- וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹutefilatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and prayer his
His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
- וּתְפִלָּת֣וֹutefilatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and prayer his
Nehemiah
four uses
let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
- תְּפִלַּ֣תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
- תְּפִלַּ֨תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
- תְּפִלַּ֣תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
- לַתְּפִלָּ֔הlatefilahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the prayer
Job
one use
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- וּֽתְפִלָּתִ֥יutefilaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and prayer my
Psalms
twenty-seven uses
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
- תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃tefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
- תְּֽפִלָּתִ֥יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.
- תְפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
- וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗יutefilaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and prayer my
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- תְפִלָּתִ֨י׀tefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- תְּ֝פִלָּ֗הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a prayer
Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
- תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃tefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
- תְּפִלָּ֑הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃tefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!
- תְּפִלָּתִ֥יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- תְפִלָּתִֽי־tefilati-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.
- תְפִלּ֑וֹתtefilotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayers of
O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
- בִּתְפִלַּ֥תbitfilatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at prayer of
O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
- תְפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- תְּֽפִלָּתִ֥יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
- תְפִלָּתִ֑יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
- תְּפִלַּ֣תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
- תְּפִלָּתָֽם׃tefilatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: prayer their
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
- תְפִלָּֽה׃tefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
- וּ֝תְפִלָּת֗וֹutefilatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and prayer his
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֣יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
- וּ֝תְפִלָּתִ֗יutefilaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and prayer my
O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֗יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Proverbs
three uses
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- וּתְפִלַּ֖תutefilatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and prayer of
The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- וּתְפִלַּ֖תutefilatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and prayer of
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- תְּ֝פִלָּת֗וֹtefilatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: prayer his
Isaiah
five uses
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- תְפִלָּ֖הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- תְפִלָּ֔הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָtefilatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: prayer your
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
- תְּפִלָּתִ֔יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
- תְּפִלָּ֥הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
Jeremiah
two uses
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
- וּתְפִלָּ֖הutefilahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a prayer
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
- וּתְפִלָּ֑הutefilahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a prayer
Lamentations
two uses
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- תְּפִלָּתִֽי׃tefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
- תְּפִלָּֽה׃tefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer of
Daniel
three uses
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- תְּפִלָּ֖הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: prayer
So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
- תְּפִלַּ֤תtefilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prayer of
while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- בַּתְּפִלָּ֑הbatefilahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the prayer
Jonah
one use
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
- תְּפִלָּתִ֔יtefilatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: prayer my
Habakkuk
one use
This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:
- תְּפִלָּ֖הtefilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a prayer
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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