I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
Προσευχαὶ  is the Greek word for every kind of prayer; andδεήσεις  denotes those forms of petitions in which something definite is asked. In this way the two words agree with each other, as genus and species. ᾿Εντεύξεις  is the word commonly used by Paul to signify those prayers which we offer for one another. The word used for it in the Latin Translation is “intercessiones,” intercessions. Yet Plato, in his second dialogue, styled Alcibiades, uses it in a different sense, to moan a definite petition offered by a person for himself; and in the very inscription of the book, and in many passages, he shows plainly, as I have said, thatπροσευχὴ  is a general term. (31) 