Entreat

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Χράω (Strong'S #5531 — Verb — chraomai — khrah'-o )

denotes (a) "to use" (of things); (b) "to use well or ill, to treat, deal with" (of persons); "treated (kindly),"  Acts 27:3 , RV, AV, "(courteously) entreated." The remaining ten instances come under (a). See Use.

 Luke 20:11 Hebrews 11:37 Hebrews 11:25Suffer

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

(2): ( v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

(3): ( v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

(4): ( v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.

(5): ( v. t.) To invite; to entertain.

(6): ( n.) Entreaty.

(7): ( v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

King James Dictionary

ENTRE'AT, To make an earnest petition or request.

The Janizaries entreated for them, as valiant men.

1. To offer a treaty. Not used. 2. To treat to discourse. Not used.