Feminine noun · From a derivative of the base of ἱκανός (G2425) (through the idea of approaching for a favour)
From a derivative of the base of G2425 (through the idea of approaching for a favor); intreaty:—supplication.
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an olive branch
for suppliants approached the one whose aid they would implore holding an olive branch entwined with white wool and fillets, to signify that they came as suppliants