'Petitions' in the Bible

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.

First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,

The real widow, left all alone, has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].

And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.