'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.

The poor man pleads,But the rich man answers 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.