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Lexicon :: Strong's G4341 - proskaleō

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προσκαλέω
Transliteration
proskaleō (Key)
Pronunciation
pros-kal-eh'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice from πρός (G4314) and καλέω (G2564)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:500,*

Strong’s Definitions

†προσκαλέομαι proskaléomai, pros-kal-eh'-om-ahee; middle voice from G4314 and G2564; to call toward oneself, i.e. summon, invite:—call (for, to, unto).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's G4341 in the following manner: call unto (20x), call (7x), call for (2x), call to (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's G4341 in the following manner: call unto (20x), call (7x), call for (2x), call to (1x).

  1. to call to

  2. to call to one's self

  3. to bid to come to one's self

  4. metaph.

    1. God is said to call to himself the Gentiles, aliens as they are from him, by inviting them, through the preaching of the gospel unto fellowship with himself in the Messiah's kingdom

    2. Christ and the Holy Sprit are said to call to themselves those preachers of the gospel to whom they have decided to intrust a service having reference to the extension of the gospel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†προσκαλέομαι proskaléomai, pros-kal-eh'-om-ahee; middle voice from G4314 and G2564; to call toward oneself, i.e. summon, invite:—call (for, to, unto).
STRONGS G4341:
προσκαλέω, προσκάλω: middle, present προσκαλοῦμαι; 1 aorist προσεκαλεσαμην; perfect προσκέκλημαι; from (Antiphon, Aristophanes, Thucydides), Xenophon, Plato down; to call to; in the N. T. found only in the middle (cf. Buttmann, § 135, 4), to call to oneself; to bid to come to oneself: τινα,
a. properly: Matthew 10:1; Matthew 15:10, 32; Matthew 18:2, 32; Matthew 20:25; Mark 3:13, 23; Mark 6:7; Mark 7:14; Mark 8:1, 34; Mark 10:42; Mark 12:43; Mark 15:44; Luke 7:18(19); Luke 15:26; 16:5; 18:16; Acts 5:40; Acts 6:2; Acts 13:7; Acts 20:1 (R G L); Acts 23:17,18,23; James 5:14.
b. metaphorically, God is said προσκαλεῖσθαι the Gentiles, aliens as they are from him, by inviting and drawing them, through the preaching of the gospel, unto fellowship with himself in the Messiah's kingdom, Acts 2:39; the Holy Spirit and Christ are said to call unto themselves (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 39, 3) those preachers of the gospel to whom they have decided to intrust a service having reference to the extension of the gospel: followed by an infinitive indicating the purpose, Acts 16:10; followed by εἰς τί, Acts 13:2 (where ὁ is for εἰς ὁ, according to that familiar Greek usage by which a preposition prefixed to the antecedent is not repeated before the relative; cf. Winers Grammar, 421f (393); (Buttmann, 342 (294))).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
10:1; 15:10; 15:32; 18:2; 18:32; 20:25
Mark
3:13; 3:23; 6:7; 7:14; 8:1; 8:34; 10:42; 12:43; 15:44
Luke
7:18; 15:26; 16:5; 18:16
Acts
2:39; 5:40; 6:2; 13:2; 13:7; 16:10; 20:1; 23:17; 23:18; 23:23
James
5:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4341 matches the Greek προσκαλέω (proskaleō),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to the king?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is strange to my wife,
and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:4 - He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:15 - calling to those who pass by,
who are going straight on their way,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:32 - And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
the LORD is his name;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:6 - who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the LORD is his name.
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