'Supplications' in the Bible

while they themselves also in supplications on your behalf pour out their longing love towards you because of God's surpassing grace which is resting upon you.

I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men;

A widow who is really in need, friendless and desolate, has her hopes fixed on God, and continues at her supplications and prayers, night and day;