'Entreaties' in the Bible
However Samson’s wife wept before him seven days while their [wedding] feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her because she pressed him so hard. Then she told the [answer to the] riddle to her countrymen.
and prayed to him. Moved by Manasseh's entreaties, the LORD heard his supplications and brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. That's how Manasseh learned that the LORD is God.
My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.
The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing it; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and heal them.
and besought Him with many entreaties. "My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live."
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
Now she who is a widow indeed and who has been left alone, has fixed her hope on God and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)