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STRONGS NUMBER G4316
Transliteration: prosagoreuō
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ag-or-yoo'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to address, to call by name
Meaning: to address, to call by name
προσαγορεύω: 1 aorist passive participle προσαγορευθείς; to speak to, to address, accost, salute (Aeschyl, Herodotus, Aristph., Xenophon, Plato, others); especially to address or accost by some name, call by name: τινα with a predicate accusative, and in the passive with a predicate nominative (1 Macc. 14:40; 2 Macc. 14:37), Hebrews 5:10. (to give a name to publicly, to style, τινα or τί with a predicate accusative, Xenophon, mem. 3, 2, 1; Γάϊος Ἰούλιος Καῖσαρ ὁ διά τάς πράξεις προσαγορευθείς Θεός, Diodorus 1, 4; add (Wis. 14:22); 2 Macc. 4:7 2Macc. 10:9 2Macc. 14:37; φρούριον ... Καισάρειαν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ προσαγορευθεν, Josephus, Antiquities 15, 8, 5.) Cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrews 2:2, p. 97f.
Word Summary
prosagoreuō: to address, to call by name
Original Word: προσαγορεύωTransliteration: prosagoreuō
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ag-or-yoo'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to address, to call by name
Meaning: to address, to call by name
Strong's Concordance
call, designateFrom pros and a derivative of agora (mean to harangue); to address, i.e. Salute by name -- call.
see GREEK pros
see GREEK agora
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4316: προσαγορεύωπροσαγορεύω: 1 aorist passive participle προσαγορευθείς; to speak to, to address, accost, salute (Aeschyl, Herodotus, Aristph., Xenophon, Plato, others); especially to address or accost by some name, call by name: τινα with a predicate accusative, and in the passive with a predicate nominative (1 Macc. 14:40; 2 Macc. 14:37), Hebrews 5:10. (to give a name to publicly, to style, τινα or τί with a predicate accusative, Xenophon, mem. 3, 2, 1; Γάϊος Ἰούλιος Καῖσαρ ὁ διά τάς πράξεις προσαγορευθείς Θεός, Diodorus 1, 4; add (Wis. 14:22); 2 Macc. 4:7 2Macc. 10:9 2Macc. 14:37; φρούριον ... Καισάρειαν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ προσαγορευθεν, Josephus, Antiquities 15, 8, 5.) Cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrews 2:2, p. 97f.