- ἔντευξις
- ἔντευξις, εως, ἡ (Pla. et al.; ins, pap [s. esp. PEnteux]; 2 Macc 4:8; TestSol D 2:5), in our lit.① a formal request put to a high official or official body, petition, request, an administrative t.t. (Polyb. 5, 35, 4; Diod S 16, 55, 3; Plut., Tib. Gracch. 829 [11, 6]; EpArist 252; Jos., Ant. 15, 79; Just., A I, 1, 1; ins, pap [Mitteis, Grundzüge 13ff; RLaqueur, Quaestiones epigraph., diss. Strassb. 1904, 8ff; Wilcken, APF 4, 1908, 224; OGI 138 n.10; Dssm., B 117f; 143f (BS 121; 146); OGuéraud, Enteux. Cavassini, Aegyptus 35, ’55, 299ff; ESeidl, Ptolem. Rechtsgesch ’62, 65; HWolff, D. Justizwesen der Ptolem. ’62, 127ff]); the letter fr. the church at Rome to the church at Corinth calls itself a petition, appeal 1 Cl 63:2; so does the sermon known as 2 Cl (19:1).—Since a petition denoted by ἔ. is preferably directed to a king, the word develops the mng.② prayer (Plut., Numa 70 [14, 12] ποιεῖσθαι τὰς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἐντεύξεις; En 99:3; TestSol D 2:5), and chieflyⓐ intercessory prayer (w. προσευχή, the general word for prayer, and εὐχαριστία, a prayer of thanksgiving; s. Elbogen2 4ff; 73) 1 Ti 2:1; cp. Hs 2:5ab; Hs 5, 4, 3.ⓑ gener. prayer Hm 5, 1, 6; 10, 3, 2f; 11:9, 14; Hs 2:5c, 6, 7.ⓒ It can even approach the sense prayer of thanksgiving 1 Ti 4:5 (=εὐχαριστία vss. 3, 4).ⓓ The context requires the sense power of intercession Hm 10, 3, 3 end; Hs 5, 4, 4.—New Docs 4, 104. DELG s.v. τυγχάνω. M-M. TW. Spicq.
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