Greek noun (masculine) · G4339
προσήλυτος
proselytospros-ay'-loo-tos
one who has arrived, a stranger.; Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prosḗlytos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4339is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4339
an arriver from a foreign region, i.e. (specially), an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte")
The King James renders it: proselyte.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
proselytos is rendered "one who has arrived, a stranger.; Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "one who has arrived, a stranger.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
Matthew 23:15προσήλυτον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: one who has arrived, a stranger., and Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| one who has arrived, a stranger. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single… |
| Of converts to Judaism, a proselytesee DB, see word): Mat.23:15, Act.2:10 6:5 13:43.† (AS | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προσέρχομαι | proserchomai | to come near/agree | Uses86 |
| προσεύχομαι | proseuchomai | to pray | Uses85 |
| πρόσωπον | prosopon | face | Uses75 |
| προσκυνέω | proskyneo | to worship | Uses60 |
| προσφέρω | prosphero | to bring to | Uses47 |
| προσευχή | proseuche | prayer | Uses35 |
| προσκαλέομαι | proskaleomai | to call to/summon | Uses28 |
| προσέχω | prosecho | to watch out | Uses24 |
| προστίθημι | prostithemi | to add (to) | Uses18 |
| προσδοκάω | prosdokao | to look for | Uses16 |
| προσδέχομαι | prosdechomai | to wait for/welcome | Uses14 |
| προσλαμβάνω | proslambano | to take | Uses12 |
and 56 more on the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- προσήλυτον2
- προσηλύτων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1N-GPM
Matthew
one use
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
- προσήλυτονproselutonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: convert
Acts
two uses
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
- προσήλυτονproselutonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a convert
After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
- προσηλύτωνproselutonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: converts
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.