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Lexicon :: Strong's G4374 - prospherō

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προσφέρω
Transliteration
prospherō (Key)
Pronunciation
pros-fer'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From πρός (G4314) and φέρω (G5342) (including its alternate)
mGNT
47x in 27 unique form(s) TR
48x in 27 unique form(s) LXX
133x in 37 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:65,1252

Strong’s Definitions

προσφέρω prosphérō, pros-fer'-o; from G4314 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear towards, i.e. lead to, tender (especially to God), treat:—bring (to, unto), deal with, do, offer (unto, up), present unto, put to.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's G4374 in the following manner: offer (22x), bring unto (10x), bring to (4x), bring (3x), offer up (3x), offer unto (1x), offer to (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's G4374 in the following manner: offer (22x), bring unto (10x), bring to (4x), bring (3x), offer up (3x), offer unto (1x), offer to (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. to bring to, lead to

    1. one to a person who can heal him or is ready to show him some kindness, one to a person who is to judge him

    2. to bring a present or a thing, to reach or hand a thing to one

    3. to put to

  2. to be borne towards one, to attack, assail

    1. to behave one's self towards one, deal with one

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
προσφέρω prosphérō, pros-fer'-o; from G4314 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear towards, i.e. lead to, tender (especially to God), treat:—bring (to, unto), deal with, do, offer (unto, up), present unto, put to.
STRONGS G4374:
προσφέρω; imperfect προσέφερον; 1 aorist προσήνεγκα; 2 aorist προσηνεγκον; perfect προσενήνοχα (Hebrews 11:17); passive, present προσφέρομαι; 1 aorist προσηνεχθην; (see references under the word φέρω); from (Pindar), Aeschylus, and Herodotus down; the Sept. often for הִקְרִיב, also for הֵבִיא, הִגִּישׁ, etc., sometimes also for הֶעֱלָה where offering sacrifices is spoken of (as 1 Kings 18:36 Complutensian; 2 Chronicles 29:7; Jeremiah 14:12);
1. to bring to, lead to: τινα τίνι, one to a person who can heal him or is ready to show him some other kindness, Matthew 4:24; Matthew 8:16; Matthew 9:2, 32; Matthew 14:35; Matthew 17:16; Mark 2:4 (namely, τινα) T WH Tr marginal reading; 10:13; Luke 18:15; passive, in Matthew 12:22 (where L WH text act.); Matt. 18:24 R G T; Matt. 19:13; — one to a person who is to judge him: Luke 23:14; τινα ἐπί τάς συναγωγάς καί τάς ἀρχάς, Luke 12:11 (Winers Grammar, § 52, 3) (where T Tr text WH εἰσφέρωσιν). προσφέρω τί, to bring br present a thing, Matthew 25:20; τί τίνι, to reach or hand a thing to one, Matthew 22:19; Luke 23:36 (here A. V. offering); τί τῷ στόματι τίνος, to put to, John 19:29; a thing to one that he may accept it, to offer: χρήματα, Acts 8:18; δῶρα, Matthew 2:11; used, as often in the Sept., of persons offering sacrifices, gifts, prayers to God (cf. Kurtz, Brief a. d. Hebrew, p. 154ff): τῷ Θεῷ σφάγια καί θυσίας, Acts 7:42; θυσίαν, Hebrews 11:4; λατρείαν, John 16:2; προσφέρειν δῶρον or δῶρα namely, τῷ Θεῷ, Matthew 5:23, 24; Matthew 8:4; Hebrews 8:3, 4; Hebrews 9:9; θυσίαν, Hebrews 10:12; plural, Hebrews 10:1, 11; (passive, Hebrews 10:2; θυσίας (R G θυσίαν) καί προσφοράς (R G προσφοράν) καί ὁλοκαυτώματα καί περί ἁμαρτίας, ibid. 8); δῶρα τέ καί θυσίας ὑπέρ ἁμαρτιῶν, to expiate (see ὑπέρ, I. 4) sins, Hebrews 5:1; αἷμα ὑπέρ ἑαυτοῦ καί τῶν τοῦ λαοῦ ἀγνοημάτων, Hebrews 9:7; τήν προσφοράν ὑπέρ ἑνός ἑκάστου, passive, Acts 21:26; προσφέρειν used absolutely (cf. Winer's Grammar, 593 (552)): περί τίνος, on account of (see περί, the passage cited β.), Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; περί τοῦ λαοῦ περί (R G ὑπέρ (see περί, the passage cited δ.)) ἁμαρτιῶν, to offer expiatory sacrifices for the people, Hebrews 5:3; τινα, namely, τῷ Θεῷ, to offer up, i. e. immolate, one, Hebrews 11:17; ἑαυτόν, of Christ, Hebrews 7:27 T Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; Hebrews 9:(14),25; προσενεχθείς (the passive pointing to the fact that what he suffered was due to God's will) ibid. 28 (it is hardly to be found in native Greek writings used of offering sacrifices; but in Josephus, Antiquities 3, 9, 3, we have ἄρνα καί ἔριφον); πρός τινα (God) δέησις τέ καί ἱκετηρίας, Hebrews 5:7 (προσφέρειν δέησιν, Achilles Tatius 7, 1; τῷ Θεῷ εὐχήν, Josephus, b. j. 3, 8, 3).
2. The passive with the dative signifies to be borne toward one, to attack, assail; then figuratively, to behave oneself toward one, deal with one: ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ Θεός, Hebrews 12:7 (very often so in Attic writings from Thucydides and Xenophon down; Philo de Josepho § 10; de ebrietate § 16; Josephus, b. j. 7, 8, 1; Aelian v. h. 12, 27; Herodian, 1, 13, 14 (7 edition, Bekker)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
18:36
2 Chronicles
29:7
Jeremiah
14:12
Matthew
2:11; 4:24; 5:23; 5:24; 8:4; 8:16; 9:2; 9:32; 12:22; 14:35; 17:16; 18:24; 19:13; 22:19; 25:20
Mark
1:44; 2:4
Luke
5:14; 12:11; 18:15; 23:14; 23:36
John
16:2; 19:29
Acts
7:42; 8:18; 21:26
Hebrews
5:1; 5:3; 5:7; 7:27; 8:3; 8:4; 9; 9:7; 9:9; 10:1; 10:2; 10:11; 10:12; 11:4; 11:17; 11:17; 12:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4374 matches the Greek προσφέρω (prospherō),
which occurs 48 times in 45 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:11 - And having come into the house they saw the little child with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:24 - And his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:23 - If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:24 - leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:4 - And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no man, but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:16 - And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:2 - And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Be of good courage, child; thy sins are forgiven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:32 - But as these were going out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed by a demon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:22 - Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spake and saw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:35 - And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent to that whole country around, and they brought to him all that were ill,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:16 - And I brought him to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:24 - And having begun to reckon, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:13 - Then there were brought to him little children that he might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:19 - Shew me the money of the tribute. And they presented to him a denarius.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:20 - And he that had received the five talents came to him and brought five other talents, saying, My lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:44 - and says to him, See thou say nothing to any one, but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing what Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:13 - And they brought little children to him that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:14 - And he enjoined him to tell no one; but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:11 - But when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and the authorities, be not careful how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:15 - And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw it rebuked them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:14 - said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning away the people to rebellion, and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to the things of which ye accuse him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:36 - And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering him vinegar,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:2 - They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:29 - There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:42 - But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:18 - But Simon, having seen that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the Holy Spirit was given, offered them money,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:26 - Then Paul, taking the men, on the next day, having been purified, entered with them into the temple, signifying the time the days of the purification would be fulfilled, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:1 - For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:3 - and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:7 - Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:3 - For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:4 - If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:7 - but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:9 - the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:25 - nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:28 - thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:1 - For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:2 - Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:8 - Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:11 - And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:12 - But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:4 - By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:17 - By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:7 - Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
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