A Larger Vocabulary

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You;” 2 Chronicles 6:19 (NASB) Prayer/ Pray – English has one word.  So does Greek.  But Hebrew has more than a dozen different words…

Before we begin

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

A prayer of the afflicted when he is faint and before Yahweh pours out his complaint.  Psalm 102:1 (in the Hebrew text) Prayer – What is prayer? There is no doubt that the Hebrew word tephilla means “prayer”, but what does “prayer” mean? What does it look like? Hebrew has more than a dozen words…