prospherō · offer, bring

What it means

prospherō (προσφέρω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “offer, bring”.

Present.

How to say it

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

1. To lead someone to another.
2. To present a sacrifice or gift to God.
3. To deal with someone: "God deals with you as sons".

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To carry toward someone: to bring, to present, to offer. It is said of those who bring the sick to Jesus and, above all in Hebrews, of one who presents offerings and sacrifices to God. It is a compound of φέρω, ‘carry’ (G5342); from it comes προσφορά, ‘offering’.

• They brought him the sick and children Matthew 4:24Matthew 19:13Matthew 9:2
• Offering gifts or an offering Matthew 2:11Matthew 5:23Matthew 8:4
• The high priest offers sacrifices Hebrews 5:1Hebrews 10:11
• “Offered himself” Hebrews 9:14Hebrews 10:12Hebrews 9:28
• Abel and Abraham offered Hebrews 11:4Hebrews 11:17

How we translate it

“Bring” when someone is brought to Jesus (“brought” 8 times, “they brought” 3, “they were bringing” 3), “offer” when it is an offering (“offer” 11, “offered” 11: “offer the gift that Moses commanded”, Matthew 8:4). In John 16:2 it is rendered “offering worship to God”, and in Hebrews 12:7, of God’s dealing with his children, “God is treating you as sons”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• offer ×11
• offered ×11
• brought ×8
• offering ×6
• they brought ×3
• they were bringing ×3
• bring him ×1
• he offers ×1
• they held it ×1
• treating ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×15
• Mark×3
• Luke×4
• John×2
• Acts×3
• Hebrews×20

• Matthew 2:11

  And coming into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell and bowed down before him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts: gold and frankincense and myrrh.

• Matthew 4:24

  And the report about him went out into all Syria; and they brought to him all those who were ill, afflicted with various diseases and torments, the demon-possessed and the moonstruck and paralytics, and he healed them.

• Matthew 5:23

  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

• Matthew 5:24

  leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

• Matthew 8:4

  And Jesus says to him, “See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

• Matthew 8:16

  When evening came, they brought to him many who were possessed by demons; and he drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill,

• Matthew 9:2

  And look, they were bringing to him a paralytic lying on a bed. And seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, child; your sins are forgiven.”

• Matthew 9:32

  As they were going out, look, people brought to him a mute man possessed by a demon.

• Matthew 12:22

  Then a man possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw.

• Matthew 14:35

  And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word into all that surrounding region, and they brought to him all who were ill,

• Matthew 17:16

  And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”

• Matthew 18:24

  And when he began to settle them, one debtor was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.

• Matthew 19:13

  Then children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them.

• Matthew 22:19

  Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius.

• Matthew 25:20

  And the one who had received the five talents came up and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Master, you handed over to me five talents; look, I have gained another five talents.’

• Mark 1:44

  and says to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

• Mark 2:4

  And when they could not bring him to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where he was; and having dug through, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

• Mark 10:13

  And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them.

• Luke 5:14

  And he ordered him to tell no one: “But go, show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

• Luke 18:15

  And they were bringing to him even the babies, so that he might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them.

• Luke 23:14

  and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who is misleading the people; and look, I, having examined him before you, have found no guilt in this man in the things of which you accuse him;

• Luke 23:36

  And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogue; indeed, an hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

• John 19:29

  A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so putting a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop, they held it to his mouth.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

• Acts 8:18

  Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Spirit was given, he offered them money,

• Acts 21:26

  Then Paul took the men, and on the next day, having purified himself with them, he went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification until the offering was presented for each of them.

• Hebrews 5:1

  For every high priest taken from among human beings is appointed on behalf of human beings in the things relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

• Hebrews 5:3

  and because of it he must, as for the people, so also for himself, offer sacrifices for sins.

• Hebrews 5:7

  In the days of his flesh, he offered prayers and pleas with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

• Hebrews 8:3

  For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it is necessary for this one also to have something that he may offer.

• Hebrews 8:4

  So if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;

• Hebrews 9:7

  but into the second goes only the high priest, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people.

• Hebrews 9:9

  This is a symbol for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect with respect to conscience,

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

• Hebrews 9:25

  nor did he enter to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the Holy Place every year with blood not his own,

• Hebrews 9:28

  so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await him, for salvation.

• Hebrews 10:1

  For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the realities, can never, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually year after year, make those who draw near perfect.

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• Hebrews 10:8

  When he said above: Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not want, nor did you take pleasure in them —these are offered according to the law—

And 7 more times.