עָתַר atar

Hebrew word for “to pray” · Strong’s H6279 · used 20 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

1) to pray, entreat, supplicate;

How it is translated

Glosses given for atar in context, with how often each is used:

• entreated 6
• prayed 4
• pray 4
• will pray 2
• will i pray 1
• being entreated 1
• prays 1
• will be entreated 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 8 (5), Exodus 10 (2), 2 Chronicles 33 (2), Genesis 25 (1), Exodus 9 (1), Judges 13 (1), 2 Samuel 21 (1), 2 Samuel 24 (1), 1 Chronicles 5 (1), Ezra 8 (1)

Forms

• ויעתר 9
• העתירו 3
• אעתיר 1
• והעתרתי 1
• והעתירו 1
• ונעתור 1
• והעתר 1
• תעתיר 1
• יעתר 1
• ונעתר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with atar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פַּרְעֹה paroh “Pharaoh” 6
• רַק raq “except” 4
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 5
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 3
• צְפַרְדֵּעַ tsephardea “frog” 2
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 4
• סוּר sur “to turn aside” 3
• עִם im “with” 4
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 3
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 3
• יָסַף yasaph “to add” 2
• הֶם hem “them” 3

Key verses

The verses using atar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 25:21 — And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
• Exodus 8:8 — Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go,…
• Exodus 8:28 — And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.
• Exodus 9:28 — Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
• Exodus 10:17 — Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
• 2 Samuel 21:14 — And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that…
• 1 Chronicles 5:20 — And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he…
• 2 Chronicles 33:13 — And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the…
• 2 Chronicles 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven…
• Job 22:27 — Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
• Job 33:26 — He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
• Isaiah 19:22 — And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.