Strong G4355προσλαμβάνω

to take

Transliteration
proslambanō
Pronunciation
pros-lam-ban'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G4314 and G2983; to take to oneself that is use (food) lead (aside) admit (to friendship or hospitality): - receive take (unto).

Detailed definition

προσ-λαμβάνω
[in LXX: Psa.18:16 (מָשָׁה hi.), Psa.73:24 (לָקַח), etc.;]
1. to take in addition.

2. to take to oneself, take, receive; in NT always mid., -ομαι;
__(a) of things: of food, with accusative, Act.27:33; with genitive part., Act.27:36;
__(b) of persons: with accusative, Mat.16:22, Mrk.8:32 (see Swete, in l), Act.17:5 18:26 28:2, Rom.14:1, 3 15:7, Phm 17.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4355 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • take7
  • receive6
  • unto1

First verses

  1. Matthew 16:22
    Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
  2. Mark 8:32
    And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
  3. Acts 17:5
    But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
  4. Acts 18:26
    And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
  5. Acts 27:33
    And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
  6. Acts 27:34
    Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
  7. Acts 27:36
    Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
  8. Acts 28:2
    And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
  9. Romans 14:1
    Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
  10. Romans 14:3
    Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
  11. Romans 15:7
    Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
  12. Philemon 1:12
    Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
  13. Philemon 1:17
    If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
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προσλαμβάνω,
future -λήψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.13)]: aorist προσέλᾰβον [Refs ([prev. author] “Mem.” 3.14.4)]: perfect -είληφα[Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 7.6.32)], Ionic dialect -λελάβηκα[Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Eusebius Myndius Philosophus 51)]:—take or receive besides or in addition, get over and above, ἄρτον προσέλαβε (i.e. τῷ ὄψῳ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Mem.”)][same place]; πρὸς τοῖς παροῦσιν ἄλλα [κακά] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 323; τὸ ἀναίσχυντον τῇ συμφορᾷ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1145; π. αἰσχύνην 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111; ἐμπειρίαν [prev. author] 6.18; ὧν μάλιστα δεόμεθα 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.23; δόξαν γελοίαν ἡμῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.8; ἄλλην εὔκλειαν πρὸς ἐκείνοις [prev. author] “An.” 7.6.32)]; μισθόν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 7.3.13; λόγον τῇ ἀληθεῖ δόξῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 207c; δωρειάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.147; παιδείαν [prev. author] 61.42)]; παιδεύματα [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus] “fragment” 1120.4; ἃ μὴ μεμάθηκας προσλάμβανε ταῖς ἐπιστήμαις 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.18; in tmesi, τοῦτο πρὸς ζητεῖς λαβεῖν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 132; καιρούς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 272a)]: absolutely, make gains, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.7)]; make progress, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 54.16:)] —passive, τὸ προσειλημμένον what has been gained, opposed to τὸ ἀπολειπόμενον, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.77c.)]
2 take in, add an area to a building site, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 193.6 (3rd c.BC):—in Mathematics texts, τὸ ποτιλαμβανόμενον or ποτιλᾱφθὲν χωρίον 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Spir.Praef.”)]; προσλαβών, plus, opposed to λιπών, minus, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 3.12.)]
2.b προσλαβών, multiplied by.. , [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.8.2:)] —passive, κοινοῦ -ληφθέντος λόγου if the ratio be multiplied into both, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 164.22.)]
2.c in Music, ὁ προσλαμβανόμενος [τόνος] the added note at the bottom of the scale, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.111, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1028f, etc.)]
3 with accusative person, take to oneself as one's helper or partner, κῆδος καινὸν καὶ ξυνασπιστὰς φίλους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 378, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 219, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 885, “Hipp.” 1011; ἱππέας καὶ πελταστάς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.16; πόλεις τὰς μὲν βίᾳ τὰς δ᾽ ἑκούσας [prev. author] “HG” 4.1.1; τινὰς τῶν πολιτῶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 15.14; τὸν δῆμον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1312b17)]; π. ἀδελφοὺς τοῖς παισί, by a second marriage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 1.9: with a second _accusative_, π. τινὰ σύμμαχον [prev. author] “An.” 7.6.27, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.16)]:—middle, πόλεις προσλαβέσθαι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.37.5; μισθοφόρους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 27)]; π. τινὰ συνεργόν, κοινωνόν, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PFay.” 12.10 (2nd c.BC), “PAmh.” 100.4 (2nd-3rd c.AD))]; of admitting into the army, π. τὸν.. μου ἀδελφὸν.. εἰς τὴν Δεξειλάου σημέαν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 14.21 (2nd c.BC))]; προσλαβέσθαι γνώμην τινός get his vote besides, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.70.2)]:—passive, -ληφθέντες εἰς τὴν κατοικίαν admitted, enrolled, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (PTeb. 61 (a).2, compare31, +others (2nd c.BC).)]
3.b middle, appropriate neighbouring land, π. τῇ ἑαυτοῦ οἰκίᾳ ψιλοὺς τόπους [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Sammelb.” 5954.5 (1st c.AD),compare “BGU” 1060.17 (1st c.BC).)]
4 in Logic, add by apposition, ὅρους [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 78a14, compare [prev. author] “APr.” 58b27 (_passive_))]; assume as minor premiss, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Stoic. 2.85, 1st c.AD: Musonius Philosophus “fragment” 1p.2H., 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.855S.)]; compare πρόσληψις.
5 borrow, τι κερμάτιον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 32; ἡ σελήνη φέγγος ἴδιον οὐκ ἔχει, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου προσλαμβάνει 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus “Ars astronomica” 11.15.)]
II take hold of, με π. κουφίσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1025 (Lyric poetry))]; π. τὸν ἀγωγέα βραχύτερον shorten the rein, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 52)]:—middle, take hold of, with genitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1215f, “Lys.” 202; μικρᾶς ῥοπῆς ἔξωθεν δεῖται προσλαβέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 556e.)]
II.2 fasten, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 78, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 670a14)]; καταδεῖν καὶ π. variant in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.2.2:)] —passive, δεσμοῖς π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 654b27, compare “HA” 497a22)]; to be enveloped, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “ἀνατομή” 32.)]
II.3 lend a hand, help, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.11 and 12; π. τινί)]help, assist, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.374.54, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 9 (_middle_))]; τῆς ἀποκρίσεως ὑμῖν.. π. help you to find an answer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 897d)]; οἱ ποταμοὶ π. τῇ θαλάττῃ co-operate with.. , [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.17, compare 11.4.2, 13.1.1:)] —middle, προσελάβετο τοῦ πάθεος he was partly the author of what befell, conjecture for -εβάλετο in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.90:)] — passive, π. ὑπό τινος to be aided by.. , [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 58.16.)]
III προσείληφασιν have learnt, believe, ὅτι.. falsa lectio for{προσυπ-} in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.141.)]