Hiketeria means “supplication” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2428 — chayil (“strength”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2428 ἱκετηρία (hiketeria) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hiketeria (hik-et-ay-ree'-ah) n. 1. intreaty [from a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor)] It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include supplications. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
hiketeria (hik-et-ay-ree'-ah) n. 1. intreaty [from a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor)] KJV: supplication Root(s): G2425
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2428. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
supplication
Usage: ἱκετήριος, -α, -ον (ἱκέτης, a suppliant), [in LXX: Job.40:22, 2Ma.9:18 * ;] of a suppliant; as subst., ἡ ἱ. (Sc. ῥάβδος), __1. in cl., an olive-branch, carried by a suppliant. __2. In late Gk. = ἱκεσία, supplication: pl., δεήσεις κ. ἱ., Heb.5:7 SYN.: see: δέησις (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hiketeria, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2428 (ἱκετηρία) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Will he address thee with a petition? Softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2428.
Will he address thee with a petition? Softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2428, grouped by book.
Hiketeria (Strong's G2428) is a Greek word most simply glossed "supplication". hiketeria (hik-et-ay-ree'-ah) n. 1. intreaty [from a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor)]
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G2428 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2428 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as supplications. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2428, with linked reader references where each row is available.