Definition

prayer (worship); by implication, an oratory (chapel)

Etymology

from G4336 (προσεύχομαι);

Word family

• προσεύχομαι proseúchomai

How the KJV renders it

• X pray earnestly
• prayer

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.