H4862 H4862
requests, petitions, or desires; heartfelt appeals to God
This plural noun appears exclusively in the Psalms, expressing the deep longings and petitions of the faithful directed toward God. Psalm 37 promises that those who delight in the Lord will receive the desires of their heart, while Psalm 20 expresses confidence that God will fulfill all one's petitions. The term carries warm relational overtones—not merely formal requests but the intimate desires shared between the faithful and their covenant Lord.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Found in Psalm 20:5 and 37:4, both in contexts of God granting what is asked. The cross-linguistic evidence (English 'desires'/'petitions', Spanish 'peticiones', French 'désir') shows the word encompasses both formal requests and deeper heart-level longings, emphasizing the personal dimension of prayer and divine response. 2×
AR["سُؤالاتِ", "سُؤَالاَتِكَ"]·ben["ইচ্ছা", "তোমার-প্রার্থনা"]·DE["dein-petitions", "desires-von"]·EN["desires-of", "your-petitions"]·FR["de-désir"]·heb["משאלות", "משאלותיך"]·HI["इच्छाएँ", "तेरी-याचनाओं-को"]·ID["permohonanmu"]·IT["[משאלותיך]", "[משאלת]"]·jav["kekajengan", "panyuwunan-panjenengan"]·KO["소원들-을", "청원들-을"]·PT["os-desejos-de", "teus-pedidos"]·RU["прошения", "прошения-твои"]·ES["peticiones-de", "tus-peticiones"]·SW["maombi-ya", "maombi-yako"]·TR["dileklerini", "isteklerini"]·urd["تیری-خواہشوں-کو", "خواہشیں"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מִשְׁאָלָה] n.f. request, petition;—pl. cstr. מִשְׁאֲלֹת לִבֶּ֑ךָ ψ 37:4 (c. נָתַן, of י׳); sf. מִשְׁאֲלוֹתֶיךָ 20:6 (c. מִלֵּא, of י׳).