STRONGS G2428:
ἱκετήριος,
-α,
-ον, (
ἱκέτης a suppliant),
pertaining to a suppliant, fit for a suppliant;
ἡ ἱκετηρία, as a substantive, namely,
ἐλαία or
ῤάβδος;
1. an olive-branch; for suppliants approached the one whose aid they would implore holding an olive-branch entwined with white wool and fillets, to signify that they came as suppliants [cf. Trench, § 51, under the end]:
λαμβάνειν ἱκετηρίαν, Herodotus 5, 51;
ἱκετηρίαν τιθέναι or
προβάλλεσθαι παρά τινι, etc.
2. equivalent to
ἱκεσία,
supplication (Isocrates, p. 186 d. var.; Polybius; 2 Macc. 9:18): plural joined with
δεήσεις (Polybius 3, 112, 8; singular
Job 40:22,
Sept.),
Hebrews 5:7.
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