To ENTREAT, plead — and the same verb, turned around, for GRANTING the plea: 'Isaac ENTREATED (va-ye'tar) Jehovah for his wife … and Jehovah was ENTREATED (va-ye'ater) of him' (25:21). One word for the asking and the answering, the prayer and the yes — the Hebrew's neat way of showing the circuit close. KJV keeps the echo ('intreated … was intreated'); Rebekah, barren twenty years, conceives. → first discussed at Gen 25:21