προσήλυτος
prosēlytos · proselyte
Greek word · Strong’s number G4339 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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prosēlytos (προσήλυτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “proselyte”.
Someone who was not a Jew and became a convert to Judaism.
How to say it
pro·sē·ly·tos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A convert to Judaism.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- proselyte ×2
- proselytes ×2
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him a son of Gehenna twice as much as you.
- Acts 2:11
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs: we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.”
- Acts 6:5
And the matter pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,
- Acts 13:43
And when the meeting broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.