proskaleomai · summon

What it means

proskaleomai (προσκαλέομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “summon”.

Call to oneself, summon.

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 have someone come to one's side by calling them.

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

How it is translated

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

• calling ×7
• summoning ×7
• called ×6
• summoned ×5
• summons ×2
• Let him call for ×1
• may call ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×9
• Luke×4
• Acts×9
• James×1

• Matthew 10:1

  And calling to himself his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to drive them out and to heal every disease and every sickness.

• Matthew 15:10

  And summoning the crowd, he said to them, “Listen and understand:

• Matthew 15:32

  And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been staying with me three days already and they do not have anything to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

• Matthew 18:2

  And calling to him a child, he set him in their midst

• Matthew 18:32

  Then his master summoned him and says to him, ‘Wicked slave! All that debt I forgave you, because you begged me.

• Matthew 20:25

  But Jesus summoned them and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them.

• Mark 3:13

  And he goes up onto the mountain and summons those whom he himself wanted, and they came to him.

• Mark 3:23

  And having summoned them, he was saying to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?

• Mark 6:7

  And he summons the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, and he was giving them authority over the unclean spirits.

• Mark 7:14

  And summoning the crowd again, he was saying to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

• Mark 8:1

  In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, he called the disciples and says to them,

• Mark 8:34

  And summoning the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

• Mark 10:42

  And summoning them, Jesus says to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

• Mark 12:43

  And summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting into the treasury.

• Mark 15:44

  But Pilate was amazed that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

• Luke 7:18

  And his disciples reported to John about all these things. And John, calling two of his disciples,

• Luke 15:26

  And calling over one of the servants, he asked what these things might be.

• Luke 16:5

  And summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

• Luke 18:16

  But Jesus called them to himself, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

• Acts 2:39

  For the promise is for you and for your children and for all those far away, as many as the Lord our God may call.”

• Acts 5:40

  And calling in the apostles, after beating them, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

• Acts 6:2

  So the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

• Acts 13:2

  And while they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

• Acts 13:7

  who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

• Acts 16:10

  And when he saw the vision, at once we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

• Acts 23:17

  And Paul, calling one of the centurions, said, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him.”

• Acts 23:18

  So he took him and brought him to the commander and says, “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, since he has something to say to you.”

• Acts 23:23

  And calling two of the centurions, he said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, from the third hour of the night;

• James 5:14

  Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.