Strong's #6279: `athar (pronounced aw-thar')

a primitive root (rather denominative from 6281); to burn incense in worship, i.e. intercede (reciprocally, listen to prayer):--intreat, (make) pray(-er).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âthar

1) to pray, entreat, supplicate

1a) (Qal) to pray, entreat

1b) (Niphal) to be supplicated, be entreated

1c) (Hiphil) to make supplication, plead

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [rather denominative from H6281]

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Genesis 25:21: "And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren:"
Genesis 25:21: "she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived."
Exodus 8:8: "for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs"
Exodus 8:9: "Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs"
Exodus 8:28: "ye shall not go very far away: entreat for"
Exodus 8:29: "I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms"
Exodus 8:30: "went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD."
Exodus 9:28: " Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings"
Exodus 10:17: "my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from"
Exodus 10:18: "And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD."
Judges 13:8: "Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man"
2 Samuel 21:14: "commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land."
2 Samuel 24:25: "burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from"
1 Chronicles 5:20: "them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them; because they put their trust"
2 Chronicles 33:13: "And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom."
2 Chronicles 33:19: "His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built"
Ezra 8:23: "our God for this: and he was entreated"
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 favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render"
Isaiah 19:22: "it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal"