Hiketeria denotes urgent appeals offered with loud cries and tears to one able to save from death.

The attested use denotes urgent appeals offered amid loud cries and tears to the one able to save from death, as the clause in Hebrews 5:7 presents them.

1. Urgent appeals in distress · dominant

   In Hebrews 5:7, the accusative plural form occurs as what was offered up with loud cries and tears to the one able to save from death; the APB renders the surrounding clause, "offered up petitions and supplications."

   Hebrews 5:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Hebrews 5:7, the APB presents the clause as "offered up petitions and supplications" with loud cries and tears. It does not isolate this term from the paired expression.