προσεύχεσθαι (proseuchesthai)

προσεύχεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of προσεύχομαι, meaning “pray”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.2.70: … Σελινουντίων εὐωχουμένων ποτὲ παρὰ τῷ ποταμῷ, ἐπιφανῆναι τὸν Ἐμπεδοκλέα· τοὺς δʼ ἐξαναστάντας προσκυνεῖν καὶ προσεύχεσθαι καθαπερεὶ θεῷ. ταύτην οὖν θέλοντα βεβαιῶσαι τὴν διάληψιν εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐναλέσθαι.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 205: … ν, καὶ νῦν αὐτὸν ἐλθεῖν ὡς σὲ ἐδυσωπήσαμεν· δι’ οὗ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐπισκέψεως ἀποπληροῦμεν χρέος, καὶ παρακαλοῦμεν προσεύχεσθαί σε ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἵνα δῷ ἡμῖν ὁ Κύριος ἤρεμον καὶ ἡσύχιον βίον διάγειν, τῆς ἐκ τῶν ἐχθ …

All forms of προσεύχομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.