prayer

invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with a deity
Intangible religious_concept Q40953
prayer
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

prayer

Summary

prayer is a religious concept[1]. prayer draws 1,322 Wikipedia views per month (religious_concept category, ranking #58 of 471).[2]

Key Facts

  • prayer's instance of is recorded as religious concept[3].
  • prayer's instance of is recorded as biblical concept[4].
  • prayer's instance of is recorded as spiritual practice[5].
  • prayer is a type of religious activity[6].
  • prayer is a type of text[7].
  • prayer is part of religion[8].
  • prayer's Commons category is recorded as Prayer[9].
  • prayer's said to be the same as is recorded as written prayer[10].
  • prayer comprises amen[11].
  • prayer comprises kneeling[12].
  • prayer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prayer[13].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[14].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[16].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[18].
  • prayer's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • prayer's partially coincident with is recorded as manifesting[20].
  • prayer's has characteristic is recorded as oral tradition[21].
  • prayer's different from is recorded as written prayer[22].
  • prayer's hashtag is recorded as Prayers[23].
  • prayer's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q135415993[24].
  • prayer's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include religious concept[3], biblical concept[4], and spiritual practice[5]. Recorded subclass of include religious activity[6] and text[7].

Use and Application

Components include amen[11], an Ecphonesis[26] and kneeling[12], a posture[27]. prayer is part of religion[8].

Influence

Things named for prayer include The Prayer of Russians[28], a national anthem[29], in Russian Empire[30].

Why It Matters

prayer draws 1,322 Wikipedia views per month (religious_concept category, ranking #58 of 471).[2] prayer has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] prayer is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for prayer include The Prayer of Russians[28], a national anthem[29], in Russian Empire[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). prayer. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/prayer
MLA “prayer.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/prayer.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_prayer_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{prayer}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/prayer}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): prayer — https://4ort.xyz/entity/prayer (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/prayer · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.