To ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to solicit pressingly; to importune. Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife. Genesis 25:21.

To prevail on by prayer or solicitation. Hence in the passive form, to be prevailed on; to yield to entreaty. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power, whom no prayers could entreat.

To treat, in any manner; properly, to use or manage; but I believe, entreat is always applied to persons, as treat is to persons or things. Applied to persons, to entreat is to use, or to deal with; to manifest to others any particular deportment, good or ill. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jeremiah 15:17. The Egyptians evil-entreated us.Deuteronomy 26:6.

To entertain; to amuse.

To entertain; to receive.