Limitless Word
תַּחֲנוּןtachănûwn/takh-an-oon'/
HebrewH846918 occurrences (KJV)

earnest prayer

KJV renders it: intreaty, supplication.

Where it appears

  • 2 Chr 6:21Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
  • Job 41:3Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
  • Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
  • Ps 28:6Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
  • Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
  • Ps 86:6Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
  • Ps 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
  • Ps 130:2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
  • Ps 140:6I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
  • Ps 143:1A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
  • Prov 18:23The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
  • Jer 3:21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
  • Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Dan 9:3I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  • Dan 9:17Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
  • Dan 9:18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
  • Dan 9:23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
  • Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.