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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 -

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

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

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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 Yahweh our God, lest He confront us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom [fn]the king had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai to know what this was and why it was.

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On that day King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 -

“My breath is [fn]offensive to my wife,

And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:4 -

He calls the heavens above,

And the earth, to render justice to His people:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:15 -

To call to those who pass by that way,

Who are making their paths straight:

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“And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh

Will [fn]be delivered;

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

There will be those who escape,

As Yahweh has said,

Even among the survivors whom Yahweh calls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:8

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He who made the Pleiades and Orion

And overturns the shadow of death into morning,

[fn]Who also darkens day into night,

Who calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the surface of the earth,

Yahweh is His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:6

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The One who builds His [fn]upper chambers in the heavens

And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth;

The One who calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the face of the earth;

Yahweh is His name.

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