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Lexicon :: Strong's G4352 - proskyneō

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προσκυνέω
Transliteration
proskyneō (Key)
Pronunciation
pros-koo-neh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From πρός (G4314) and a probable derivative of κύων (G2965) (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand)
mGNT
60x in 24 unique form(s) TR
60x in 25 unique form(s) LXX
179x in 33 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:758,948

Strong’s Definitions

προσκυνέω proskynéō, pros-koo-neh'-o; from G4314 and a probable derivative of G2965 (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand); to fawn or crouch to, i.e. (literally or figuratively) prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore):—worship.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's G4352 in the following manner: worship (60x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's G4352 in the following manner: worship (60x).

  1. to kiss the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence

  2. among the Orientals, esp. the Persians, to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence

  3. in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance, whether in order to express respect or to make supplication

    1. used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank

      1. to the Jewish high priests

      2. to God

      3. to Christ

      4. to heavenly beings

      5. to demons

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
προσκυνέω proskynéō, pros-koo-neh'-o; from G4314 and a probable derivative of G2965 (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master's hand); to fawn or crouch to, i.e. (literally or figuratively) prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore):—worship.
STRONGS G4352:
προσκυνέω, προσκύνω; imperfect προσεκύνουν; future προσκυνήσω; 1 aorist προσεκύνησα; from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; the Sept. very often for הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה (to prostrate oneself); properly, to kiss the hand to (toward) one, in token of reverence: Herodotus 1, 134; (cf. K. F. Hermann, Gottesdienstl. Alterthümer d. Griech. § 21; especially Hoelemann, Die Biblical Gestalt. d. Anbetung in his 'Bibelstudien' i., 106ff); hence, among the Orientals, especially the Persians, to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence ("to make a 'salam'"); Latin veneror (Nepos, Conon. 3, 3), adoro (Pliny, h. n. 28, 5, 25; Suetonius, Vitell. 2); hence, in the N. T. by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance, whether in order to express respect or to make supplication. It is used
a. of homage shown to men of superior rank: absolutely, Matthew 20:20 (the Jewish high-priests are spoken of in Josephus, b. j. 4, 5, 2 as προσκυνούμενοι); πεσών ἐπί τούς πόδας προσεκύνησεν, Acts 10:25; τίνι (according to the usage of later writings; cf. Winers Grammar, 36, 210 (197); (Buttmann, § 131, 4); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 463), Matthew 2:2, 8; Matthew 8:2; Matthew 9:18; Matthew 14:33; Matthew 15:25; (Matthew 18:26); Matthew 28:9,17 (R G); Mark 5:6 (here WH Tr marginal reading have the accusative); Mark 15:19; John 9:38; with πεσών preceding, Matthew 2:11; Matthew 4:9; ἐνώπιον τῶν ποδῶν τίνος, Revelation 3:9; (it may perhaps be mentioned that some would bring in here Hebrews 11:21 προσεκύνησεν ἐπί τό ἄκρον τῆς ῤάβδου αὐτοῦ, explaining it by the (Egyptian) custom of bowing upon the magistrate's staff of office in taking an oath; cf. Chabas, Melanges Egypt. III. i., p. 80, cf. p. 91f; but see below).
b. of homage rendered to God and the ascended Christ, to heavenly beings, and to demons: absolutely (our to worship) (cf. Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)), John 4:20; John 12:20; Acts 8:27; Acts 24:11; Hebrews 11:21 (cf. above); Revelation 11:1; πίπτειν καί προσκυνεῖν, Revelation 5:14; τίνι, John 4:21, 23; Acts 7:43; Hebrews 1:6; Revelation 4:10; Revelation 7:11; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 14:7; Revelation 16:2; Revelation 19:4, 20; Revelation 22:8; Revelation 13:4 G L T Tr WH (twice (the 2nd time WH text only)); Rev. 13:15 G T Tr WH text; Revelation 20:4 Rec.; πεσών ἐπί πρόσωπον προσκυνήσει τῷ Θεῷ, 1 Corinthians 14:25; πίπτειν ἐπί τά πρόσωπα καί προσκυνεῖν τῷ Θεῷ, Revelation 11:16; preceded by πίπτειν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ποδῶν τίνος, Revelation 19:10. in accordance with the usage of the older and better writings with τινα or τί (cf. Matthiae, § 412): Matthew 4:10; Luke 4:8; Revelation 9:20; Revelation 13:12; Revelation 14:9, 11; also Revelation 13:4 (Rec. twice; (WH marginal reading once)), 8 (where Rec. dative), 15 R L WH marginal reading; 20:4a (where Rec. dative), 4b (where Relz dative); Luke 24:52 R G L Tr brackets WH reject; (the Sept. also connects the word far more frequent with the dative than with the accusative (cf. Hoelemann as above, p. 116ff)); ἐνώπιον τίνος, Luke 4:7; Revelation 15:4.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:2; 2:8; 2:11; 4:9; 4:10; 8:2; 9:18; 14:33; 15:25; 18:26; 20:20; 28:9; 28:17
Mark
5:6; 15:19
Luke
4:7; 4:8; 24:52
John
4:20; 4:21; 4:23; 9:38; 12:20
Acts
7:43; 8:27; 10:25; 24:11
1 Corinthians
14:25
Hebrews
1:6; 11:21; 11:21
Revelation
3:9; 4:10; 5:14; 7:11; 9:20; 11:1; 11:16; 11:16; 13:4; 13:4; 13:12; 13:15; 14:7; 14:9; 14:11; 15:4; 16:2; 19:4; 19:10; 19:20; 20:4; 22:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4352 matches the Greek προσκυνέω (proskyneō),
which occurs 60 times in 54 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:2 - and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:8 - He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:11 - On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:9 - “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:10 - Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:2 - A man with leprosy[fn] came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:18 - While he was saying this, a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:33 - Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:25 - The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:26 - “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:20 - Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:9 - Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:17 - When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:6 - When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:19 - Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:7 - If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:8 - Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:52 - Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:20 - Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:21 - “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:22 - You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:23 - Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:24 - God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:38 - Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:20 - Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:43

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:43 - You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile’[fn] beyond Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:27 - So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[fn] eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:25 - As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:11 - You can easily verify that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:25 - as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:6 - And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:21 - By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:9 - I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:10 - the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:14 - The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:11 - All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:20 - The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:1 - I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:16 - And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:4 - People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:8 - All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:12 - It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:15 - The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:7 - He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:9 - A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:11 - And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 15:4 - Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:2 - The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:4 - The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried: “Amen, Hallelujah!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:10 - At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”

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