Word Summary
protrepō: to turn forward, urge forward
Original Word: προτρέπωTransliteration: protrepō
Phonetic Spelling: (prot-rep'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to turn forward, urge forward
Meaning: to turn forward, urge forward
Strong's Concordance
exhort.
Middle voice from pro and the base of trope; to turn forward for oneself, i.e. Encourage -- exhort.
see GREEK pro
see GREEK trope
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4389: προτρέπωπροτρέπω: 1 aorist middle participle
προτρεψαμενος;
to urge forward, exhort, encourage (often so by Attic writ, both in the active and the middle):
Acts 18:27. (Wis. 14:18; 2 Macc. 11:7. (From
Homer down.))