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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of προσήλυθον (prosḗluthon, aorist of προσέρχομαι (prosérkhomai, “to approach”)) + -τος (-tos), thus literally, “one that has approached”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pro.sɛ̌ː.ly.tos/ → /proˈsi.ly.tos/ → /proˈsi.li.tos/
Noun
προσήλῠτος • (prosḗlŭtos) m (genitive προσηλύτου); second declension
- sojourner
- stranger, foreigner
- (Koine) convert to Judaism, proselyte
Declension
Quotations
New Testament,
Acts of the Apostles 2:10:
- Φρυγίαν τε καὶ Παμφυλίαν, Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὰ μέρη τῆς Λιβύης τῆς κατὰ Κυρήνην, καὶ οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες Ῥωμαῖοι, Ἰουδαῖοί τε καὶ προσήλυτοι
- […] Phrugían te kaì Pamphulían, Aígupton kaì tà mérē tês Libúēs tês katà Kurḗnēn, kaì hoi epidēmoûntes Rhōmaîoi, Ioudaîoí te kaì prosḗlutoi
- Translation by KJV
- Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- προσήλυτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “προσήλυτος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “προσήλυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4339 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible