'Presenting' in the Bible

Jacob replied, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift [as a blessing] from my hand, for I see your face as if I had seen the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who had carried it.

The Philistine [Goliath] came out morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.

then you are to say to them, ‘I was presenting my [humble] petition and plea to the king so that he would not send me back to Jonathan’s house to die there.’”

While I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth,