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Definition: PRAYING |
PRAYING1. A. & n. from Pray, v. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Pray |
Date "PRAYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prayer is an attempt to communicate with a deity or deities; prayer in western civilization is usually directed to God.
The existence of prayer is attested in written sources as early as 5000 years ago, and anthropologists believe that the earliest intelligent humans practised something that we would recognize today as prayer.
There are many types of prayer. Four of the most basic types of prayer are thanksgiving, confession of one's sins, praise of the divine, and petitioning for help or fulfilment of need.
Biblical views of prayer
The Bible contains many examples of prayer and various instructions and teachings about prayer. The book of Psalms is composed of prayers, song verses and poems by various authors, and some of its prayers in particular have been used by Jews and Christians for years, in corporate prayer and individual prayer, and used both verbatim and as inspiration for new prayers and songs.
In the Tanach (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament) various forms of prayer appear; the most common form is petition. This in many ways is the simplest form of prayer. Some have termed this the "social approach" to prayer. In this view, a person directly confronts God in prayer, and asks for their needs to be fulfilled; God really does listen to prayer, and may or may not choose to answer. This is the primary approach to prayer found in the Tanach (or Old Testament), the New Testament, most of the Church writings, and the Talmud.
This "petition approach" to prayer is supported for example by Matthew 21:22, where Jesus is reported as saying "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Also "the way to my father is through me"
Most modern day prayerbooks by monotheistic religions contain many prayers that were originally written as petitions. However, many modern believers may recite the same prayers with a different understanding of prayer (see below) in mind.
Prayer in Eastern Religions
The religion of Buddhism, well known for being non-theistic, utterly discards worship and places devotional emphasis on the practice of meditation alongside scriptural study. Although God and deities are recognized as present, Gautama Buddha claims it is mankind who by their own free will, possess the greatest capacity and potential to liberate themselves and are urged to do so without exterior assistance. Therefore, prayer is not as central to devotion as in its neighbouring asiatic faiths.
In religions such as Hinduism and Jainism, prayer has a greater significance and role for salvation. Hindus in India have numerous devotional movements. Stemming from the highest Creator God called Brahma, prayer is focused on His many manifestations, including the most popular deities Shiva, Vishnu, Rama and Krishna. Although Jains believe that no spirit or divine being can assist them on their path, they do hold some influence, and on special occasions, Jains will pray and meditate for right knowledge to the twenty-four Tirthankaras (saintly teachers).
Prayer in Paganism
In Graeco-Roman paganism, ceremonial prayer was highly formulaic and ritualized. The Iguvine Tables contain a supplication that can be translated, "If anything was said improperly, if anything was done improperly, let it be as if it were done correctly."
The formalism and formulaic nature of these prayers led them to be written down in language that may have only been partially understood by the writer, and our texts of these prayers may in fact be garbled. Prayers in Etruscan were used in the Roman world by augurs and other oracles long after Etruscan became a dead language. The Carmen Arvale and the Carmen Saliare are two specimens of partially preserved prayers that seem to have been unintelligible to their scribes, and whose language is full of archaisms and difficult passages.
Roman prayers and sacrifices were often envisioned as legal bargains between deity and worshipper. The Roman formula was do ut des: "I give, so that you may give in return." Cato the Elder's treatise on agriculture contains many examples of preserved traditional prayers; in one, a farmer addresses the unknown deity of a possibly sacred grove, and sacrifices a pig in order to placate the god or goddess of the place and beseech his or her permission to cut down some trees from the grove.
Philosophical re-interpretations of prayer
Post-Biblical theologians considered the philosophical problems involved in prayer (see below). Over time a number of re-interpretations of prayer evolved. These were developed in great detail by the medieval neo-Platonic and neo-Aristotelian philosophers, and have influenced how many people still pray today. At the moment, the descriptions below list some Jewish sources, but each of these views of prayers also has Christian and Muslim proponents as well; there was much intellectual cross-fertilization between Jews, Christians and Muslims during parts of the middle-ages, and so there appears to be some convergence among the philosophers of that era.
The educational approach
In this view, prayer is not a conversation with God. Rather, it is meant to inculcate certain attitudes in the one who prays, but not to influence God. Among Jews, this has been the approach of Rabbenu Bachya, Yehuda Halevy, Joseph Albo, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Joseph Dov Soloveitchik. This view is expressed by Rabbi Nosson Scherman in the overview to the Artscroll Siddur (p.XIII); note that Scherman goes on to also affirm the Kabbalistic view (see below). Among Christian theologians...(please add examples here) Among Muslim theologians....(please add examples here).
The Kabbalistic view of prayer
People involved with kabbalah (esoteric Jewish mysticism) often reject rationalist reinterpreations of prayer outright, but they also reject the social approach, in which prayer is viewed as a dialogue with God. Instead, this approach ascribes a higher meaning to the purpose of prayer, which is no less than affecting the very fabric of reality itself, restructuring and repairing the universe in a real fashion. For Kabbalists, every prayer, every word of every prayer, and indeed, even every letter of every word of every prayer, has a precise meaning and a precise effect. In Kabbalah and related mystical belief systems, adherents claim intimate knowledge about the way in which God relates to us and the physical universe in which we live. For people with this view, prayers can literally affect the mystical forces of the universe and repair the fabric of creation.
Among Jews, this approach has been taken by the Hassidei Ashkenaz, the Zohar, the Kabbalist school of though created by the Ari, the Ramchal, most of Hassidism, the Vilna Gaon, and rabbis such as Yaakov Emden and Kalonimus Shapira. In the 1800s some European Christians were influenced by Kabbalah...(please add information here)
The rationalist approach
In this view, ultimate goal of prayer is to help train a person to focus on God through philosophy and intellectual contemplation. This approach was taken by Maimonides and the other medieval rationalists; it became popular in Jewish, Christian and Islamic intellectual circles, but never became the most popular understanding of prayer among the laity in any of these faiths. In all three of these faiths today a significant minority of people still hold to this approach.
The experiential approach
In this approach, the purpose of prayer is to enable the person praying to gain a direct experience of God. This approach is very significant in Christianity and widespread in Judaism (although less popular theologically). In Eastern Orthodoxy, this approach is known as hesychasm. It is also widespread in Sufi Islam, and in some forms of mysticism. It has some similarities with the rationalist approach, since it can also involve contemplation, although the contemplation is not generally viewed as being as rational or intellectual. It also has some similarities with the Kabbalistic view, but it lacks the Kabbalistic emphasis on the importance of individual words and letters.
Prayer practices
The actual act of praying can take on many different outward forms. Most religions or religious subgroups have certain forms that they recommend, usually more than one; occasionally, there may be specific forms that are forbidden. Prayer may be done privately and individually, or it may be done corporately in the presence of fellow believers. Some outward acts that sometimes accompany prayer are: ringing a bell; burning incense or paper; lighting a candle or candles; facing a specific direction, i.e. towards Mecca or towards the East.
A variety of body postures may be assumed, often with specific meaning associated with them: standing; sitting; kneeling; prostrate on the floor; eyes opened; eyes closed; hands folded or clasped; hands upraised; and others. Prayers may be recited from memory, read from a book of prayers, or composed spontaneously as they are prayed. They may be said, chanted, or sung. They may be with musical accompaniment or not. There may be a time of outward silence while prayers are offered mentally. Often, there are prayers to fit specific occasions, such as the blessing of a meal, the birth or death of a loved one, other significant events in the life of a believer, or days of the year that have special religious significance.
Jewish prayer
Prayers said by Jews are described in the entry on Jewish services. The prayers of the Jewish services are collected in a prayerbook called the Siddur. The entry on the siddur describes the different types of Jewish prayerbooks and how they have evolved over time.
The most imporant Jewish prayers are the Shema Yisrael ("Hear O Israel") and the Amidah ("the standing prayer").
Christian prayer
Orthodox Christianity, Catholic Christianity and the many branches of Protestant Christianity each have distinctive liturgies. Some of the more commonly recited Christian prayers include the following:
- Lord's Prayer -- Psalms -- Book of Common Prayer -- Jesus Prayer
- Traditional prayer aids include the rosary and the prayer rope.
- Prayer to saints: in Catholic and Orthodox tradition, prayers of petition may be addressed to saints. It is understood that the saints answer such prayers by means of their own prayers to God on behalf of the petitioner.
Islamic Prayer
Muslims pray a brief prayer service in Arabic, facing Mecca, five times a day. (More to be written.)
Bahá'í Prayer
Baha'is are required to recite each day one of three obligatory prayers revealed by Baha'u'llah. The believers have been enjoined to face in the direction of the Qiblih when reciting their Obligatory Prayers.
One, the longest obligatory prayer, may be recited at any time of day; another, of medium length, is recited once in the morning, once at midday, and once in the evening; and the shortest is recited at noon. This is the text of the short prayer:
Baha'is also read from and meditate on the scriptures every morning and evening. There are also many other revealed prayers in the Baha'i scriptures, most for general use at the choice of the individual and some for specific occasions.
- I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
In the past 200 years a new form of prayer has emerged among Christians, called praying in tongue (see Glossolalia). According to adherents of this practice, the Holy Spirit comes into the body of the prayer and speaks on the Christian's behalf in a celestial language. The person praying will later deny any knowledge of what they said while praying.
Philosophical paradoxes of prayer
There are a number of philosophical paradoxes involving prayer to an omnipotent God, namely:
These questions have been discussed in Jewish, Christian and Muslim writings from the medieval period onward. The 900s to 1200s saw some of the most fertile discussion on these questions, during the period of Neo-Platonic and Neo-Aristotelian philosophy. Discussion of these problems never ceased entirely, but they did fall mostly from the public view for several centuries, until The Enlightenment reignited philosophical inquiry into theological issues. (More to be written.)
- If a person deserves God to give him the thing he prays for, why doesn't God give it to him, even without prayer? And if a person is not deserving of it, then even if that person does pray and request it, should it be given just because of his prayer?
- Why should it be necessary to pray with speech? Doesn't God know the thoughts of all people?
- If God is omniscient (all-knowing) then doesn't God know what we are going to ask Him for even before we pray?
- How can a human being hope to change God's mind? Why should human prayers affect God's decisions?
- Do human beings actually have the ability to praise an omniscient and omnipotent God? Praising God is difficult to do without describing God, yet how can a finite human being know anything about God's ultimate nature? This question was the subject of heated debate among many religious philosophers; one such debate took place in the 14th century between Gregory Palamas and Barlaam of Calabria.
All of these questions have been discussed in many Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious texts. Many of these texts offer proposed resolutions to some or all of these paradoxes.
Prayer and Medicine
Several studies have claimed that patients who pray for their health or are being prayed for recover faster. Critics have attributed this to the placebo effect. Typically, the scientific establishment ignores studies of the occult and esoteric, but in 1999, media reports on prayer studies prompted a comprehensive review of such studies in The Lancet. The result: "Even in the best studies, the evidence of an association between religion, spirituality, and health is weak and inconsistent." A 2001 double-blind study of the Mayo clinic found no significant difference in the recovery rates between people who were (unbeknownst to them) assigned to a group that prayed for them (five people praying once a week for 26 weeks), and those who were not. In 2003, a second MANTRA study by Duke University contradicted the first MANTRA study's findings that intercessory prayer improved recovery rates in heart patients.
See also: Qi, Qigong, public prayer, prayer in school and moment of silence
External links
- Faith-Medicine Connection Challenged
- Proponents and Skeptics in "The Atlantic" magazine article"
- Avilles et.al.: Intercessory prayer and cardiovascular disease progression in a coronary care unit population: a randomized trial, Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2001, vol 76, pp. 1192 - 1198, online: http://www.mayo.edu/proceedings/2001/dec/7612a1.pdf
- Second MANTRA study finds that prayer has no medical benefit
- R.P. Sloan, E. Bagiella, T. Powell: Religion, spirituality, and medicine. Lancet 1999: 353, no 9153. Online: http://www.eatingbythebook.com/connect/0007.html
References
Moshe Greenberg, Biblical Prose Prayer as a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man's Quest for God Scribner, NY, 1954
Seth Kadish, Kavvana: Directing the Heart in Jewish Prayer, Jason Aronson Inc., 1997
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prayer."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vice | Incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible; (guilty). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PRAYING |
| English words defined with "PRAYING": Apprecatory ♦ benediction, blessing ♦ Comprecation ♦ Frankalmoigne ♦ hassock, hypocritically ♦ petitioner, prayer, Precation ♦ suppliant, supplicant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PRAYING": Bees ♦ FRANKALMOIGNE ♦ Mantodea ♦ Symbols of Saints ♦ Watchings. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PRAYING": Pray. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I grew up in Seattle,I can't believe I'm praying for rain (Mutant X; writing credit: Atif Y. Siddiqi) I was just praying for the police (Werewolf; writing credit: Brad Hornbacher; Tony Zarindast) Then I heard him praying, now I lay me down to sleep I pray to the lord my soul to keep (The Way of the Gun; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Are you a religious man because at 2 o'clock I'd start praying for your job (The Out-of-Towners; writing credit: Neil Simon) Oh, I was praying. (Love and Death; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Lyrics | Well maybe we should all be praying for time (Praying For Time; performing artist: George Michael) I'll be praying for whatever it's worth (Standing At The Edge Of The Earth; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) From bein up all night praying she'd say yes (I Lost IT; performing artist: Kenny Chesney) III. PRAYING FOR THE END OF TIME (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) I'm praying that you don't burn out, (Somewhere Out There; performing artist: Our Lady Peace) | |
Clever | Praying is hard; living without it is harder. (references; author: unknown) A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning. (references; author: unknown) There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed when what they really need is courage to climb them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Praying Mantis (1991) | |
Song Titles | Praying For Time (performing artist: George Michael) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Woman praying to shoe and letter A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Group of peasants in Slav costume, praying. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Earthquake victims in Tehran, Iran, praying to Allah for protection as they camp with their belongings in the open air northwest of Tehran. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bank note illustration showing colonists praying for deliverance from imminent Indian attack. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Negro family praying at graves of their relatives on All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro crossing himself and praying over grave of relative in cemetery, All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Where two Catholic sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two Catholic sisters were praying before this crucifix in a convent in Algiers when German dive-bombers almost demolished the building, killing them and thirteen other nuns. The fifteen sist. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Praying during revival meeting. Pentecostal church, Cambria, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Preacher, friends and relatives of the deceased praying at an annual memorial meeting. Up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. See general caption number one. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Paintings. Pilgrims praying by Henry Mosler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Angel praying" by Joanna Kopik Commentary: "A figure of an angel taken at a cemetery." | "Color in Mexico_3" by Carlosalba@mail.com Commentary: "Praying to Yellow." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Epicurus | If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. |
Jean Paul Richter | Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. |
T. Binney | No Christian but has his Gethsemane; but every praying Christian will find there is no Gethsemane without its angel. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He seemed to be dreaming or praying. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the association of owners knew that some day the praying would stop |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Comoros | Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that police arrested persons inside mosques while they were praying. (references) |
Afghanistan | Those who were observed not praying at appointed times or who were late attending prayer were subject to punishment, including severe beatings. (references) | |
Tunisia | According to human rights lawyers, the Government regularly questioned Muslims who were observed praying frequently in mosques. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | One witness, a former prison guard, reported that those believing in God were regarded as insane, and the authorities taught that "all religions are opiates." He recounted an instance in which a woman was kicked severely and left lying on the ground for days, because a guard overheard her praying for a child who was beaten. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?" "Ay," said the officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast." "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth." |
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| "PRAYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.93% of the time. "PRAYING" is used about 477 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.93% | 449 | 12,949 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.3% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.09% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 477 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "PRAYING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Eph-lal | N/A | Biblical | Praying |
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Expressions using "PRAYING": praying insect ♦ praying locust ♦ praying machine ♦ praying mantid ♦ praying mantis ♦ praying wheel. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "PRAYING": praying-beads, praying-wheel. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "PRAYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me lutje (imploringly), lutje (appeal, application, claim, cry, demand, desire, devotion, devotions, entreaty, obsecration, obtestation, orison, paternoster, petition, plea, pleading, prayer, request, rogation, supplication, wish), lutës (begging, beseeching, deprecatory, imploring, petitioner, pleading, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرس النبي (mantis, praying mantis). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | богомолка (mantis, praying mantis). (various references) | |
Chinese | 祝祷 (Pray, Prayed). (various references) | |
Czech | modlicí mlýnek (praying-wheel). (various references) | |
Dutch | Europese bidsprinkhaan (european mantid, european mantis, praying mantis). (various references) | |
Finnish | rukoilijasirkka (european mantid, european mantis, praying mantis). (various references) | |
French | priant. (various references) | |
German | betende, betend. (various references) | |
Greek | μάντις η προσευχόμενη (european mantid, european mantis, praying mantis), είδοσ ακρίδοσ (praying mantis), αλογάκι της Παναγίας (european mantid, european mantis, praying mantis). (various references) | |
Hungarian | imádkozás. (various references) | |
Italian | preghiere (prayers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 螳螂拳 (praying mantis style), 螳螂 (praying mantis), 雨乞い (praying for rain), 馬耳東風 (praying to deaf ears, talking to the wall, utter indifference), 願酒 (praying at a temple or shrine for help to stop drinking), 百万遍 (million times, praying a million times), 夜籠り (praying all night in a shrine or temple, the dead of night), 代願 (applying by proxy, praying by proxy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がんしゅ (carcinoma, praying at a temple or shrine for help to stop drinking, temple petitioner), ひゃくまんべん (million times, praying a million times), ばじとうふう (praying to deaf ears, talking to the wall, utter indifference), かまきり (mantis, praying mantis), あまごい (praying for rain), よごもり (praying all night in a shrine or temple, the dead of night), とうろうけん (praying mantis style), とうろう (going into a tall building, going up a tower, lantern, mantis, praying mantis, visiting a brothel), だいがん (applying by proxy, praying by proxy, your face). (various references) | |
Korean | 기도 (airway, INTENTION, Prayer). (various references) | |
Manx | prayal, goaill padjer (pray). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayingpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reza (orison, prayer, prayers), oração (clause, collect, oration, orison, prayer, sentence). (various references) | |
Romanian | cãlugãriţã (nun, praying mantis). (various references) | |
Russian | моление (prayer service), молить молящийся. (various references) | |
Scottish | grìosadh (abetting), ùrnuigh (prayer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | moljenje (adjuration). (various references) | |
Spanish | mantis religiosa (praying mantis). (various references) | |
Swedish | bön-. (various references) | |
Turkish | yalvarma (adjuration, appeal, begging, conjuration, cry, entreaty, invocation, plea, pleading, prayer, supplication), namaz kılma, ibadet etme, dua etme, dua eden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | молиння. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mantis religiosa, Paratenodera sinensis, precatio, preces. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai pan to plhqoV tou laou hn proseucomenon exw th wra tou qumiamatoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et omnis multitudo erat populi orans foris hora incensi |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eall werod þæs folces wæs ute gebiddende on þære offrunga timan. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And al the multitude of the puple was with outforth, and preiede in the our of encensyng. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And wet into ye teple of ye Lorde and the whoale multitude of ye people were with out in prayer whill the incense was aburnynge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug didto sa gawas ang tibuok panon sa katawhan nag-ampo sa takna sa paghalad sa incienso. |
| Chinese | 燒 香 的 時 候 、 眾 百 姓 在 外 面 禱 告 。 |
| Croatian | Za vrijeme kaðenice sve je ono mnoštvo naroda vani molilo. |
| Danish | Og hele Folkets Mængde holdt Bøn udenfor i Røgelseofferets Time. |
| Dutch | En al de menigte des volks was buiten, biddende, ten ure des reukoffers. |
| Finnish | Ja kaikki kansa oli suitsuttamisen aikana ulkopuolella rukoilemassa. |
| French | Toute la multitude du peuple était dehors en prière, à l`heure du parfum. |
| German | Und die ganze Menge des Volks war draußen und betete unter der Stunde des Räucherns. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara upacara pembakaran kemenyan diadakan, orang banyak berdoa di luar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka segenap perhimpunan kaum itu ada sembahyang di luar pada ketika membakar kemenyan itu. |
| Italian | Tutta l'assemblea del popolo pregava fuori nell'ora dell'incenso. |
| Korean | 모 든 백 성 은 그 분 향 하 는 시 간 에 밖 에 서 기 도 하 더 니 |
| Latvian | Un visi daudzie ïaudis ârâ lûdza Dievu kvçpinâðanas stundâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | As va'n slane chaglym jeh'n pobble cheu-mooie ec padjer rish traa yn oural-millish. |
| Maori | Na i waho te nuinga katoa o te iwi e inoi ana i te haora whakakakara. |
| Norwegian | og hele folkemengden stod utenfor og bad i røkofferets stund. |
| Portuguese | e toda a multidão do povo orava da parte de fora, à hora do incenso. |
| Rumanian | Kn ceasul tqmkierii, toatq mulyimea norodului se ruga afarq. |
| Russian | Б ЧУЈ НОПЦЕУФЧП ОБТПДБ НПМЙМПУШ ЧОЕ ЧП ЧТЕНС ЛБЦДЕОЙС, -- |
| Shuar | Init kunkuinian ekeemai Untsurí aents aani matsamsar Yúsan áujtak pujuarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Toda la multitud del pueblo estaba fuera, orando a la hora del incienso. |
| Swahili | Watu, umati mkubwa, walikuwa wamekusanyika nje wanasali wakati huo wa kufukiza ubani. |
| Swedish | Och hela menigheten stod utanför och bad, medan rökoffret förrättades. |
| Uma | Jadi', bula ntodea mosampaya hi mali-na, Zakharia mesua' hi rala Tomi Alata'ala mpotunu dupa'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PRAYING": outpraying, respraying, spraying. (additional references) | |
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"PRAYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pracing, prailing, Pravin, prayin, xraying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRAYING" (pronounced prā"ing) |
| 5 | p r ā" i ng | preying, spraying. |
| 4 | -r ā" i ng | betraying, fraying, graying, portraying, straying. |
| 3 | -ā" i ng | allaying, baying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, delaying, dismaying, disobeying, displaying, doomsaying, Haying, laying, nonpaying, obeying, overplaying, paying, playing, prepaying, repaying, replaying, saying, slaying, staying, surveying, swaying, weighing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: grainy, paring, paying, prying, raping, raying. | |
-2 letters: angry, aping, garni, grain, grapy, gripy, prang, pyran, rainy, rangy. | |
-3 letters: agin, airn, airy, ayin, gain, gapy, girn, gnar, gran, gray, grin, grip, gyri, nary, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pian, pina, ping, piny, pirn, pray, prig, pyin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, yagi, yang, yarn. | |
-4 letters: ain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: agrypnia, parrying, partying, repaying, spraying. | |
+2 letters: agrypnias, carpingly, panegyric, panfrying, pargyline, parlaying, parleying, parodying, pratingly, prepaying, raspingly, replaying, sparingly. | |
+3 letters: atrophying, graspingly, outpraying, overpaying, panegyrics, panegyrist, paralysing, paralyzing, pargylines, pigmentary, portraying, pyramiding, reapplying, respraying. | |
+4 letters: angiography, approvingly, copyreading, granophyric, iconography, impregnably, karyotyping, overplaying, panegyrical, panegyrists, pharyngitis, playwriting, prattlingly, preachingly, repacifying, tapestrying, underpaying, unsparingly. | |
+5 letters: appraisingly, despairingly, hydroplaning, interplaying, paralyzingly, playwritings, preachifying, pregnability, redisplaying, scintigraphy, surpassingly, typographing, underplaying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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