'Supplications' in the Bible

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

And they said unto him, 'Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications -- in like manner also those of the Pharisees -- but thine do eat and drink?'

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,