To APPEAL TO, plead with, petition — originally just to meet or fall in with someone, and so to approach them with a request. Romans 8 uses it three times in nine verses: the Spirit pleads for us at v26 (in the strengthened form hyperentugchano, a New Testament hapax), again at v27, and CHRIST pleads for us at v34. One verb family doing the same work at both ends of the chapter, which no version on the shelf renders consistently. → first discussed at Rom 8:26