tefilla

noun2

1. •
   (Judaism) Intercession, prayer; (countable) a prayer.

   • Chazal have said that the Ovos were childless, to induce them to daven for children, because Hashem longs for their tefilos. — 2000
2. •
   [in the plural] (Judaism) Synonym of phylactery (“either of two small leather cases containing scrolls with passages from the Torah, traditionally worn by a Jewish man (one on the arm (usually the left) and one on the forehead) and now sometimes by a woman at certain morning prayers as a reminder to obey the law as set out in the Bible”).