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STRONGS NUMBER G4345
Transliteration: prosklēroō
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-klay-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to allot to
Meaning: to allot to
προσκληρόω, προσκλήρω: 1 aorist passive 3 person plural προσεκληρώθησαν; to add or assign to by lot, to allot: προσεκληρώθησαν τῷ Παύλῳ, were allotted by God to Paul, viz., as disciples, followers, Acts 17:4 (Winers Grammar, § 39, 2 at the end; others give it a middle force, joined their lot to, attached themselves to (A. V. consorted with); cf. leg. ad Gaium § 10 and other examples from Philo as below). (Plutarch, mor., p. 738 d.; Lucian, am. 3; frequent in Philo, cf. Loesner, Observations, p. 209ff.)
Word Summary
prosklēroō: to allot to
Original Word: προσκληρόωTransliteration: prosklēroō
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-klay-ro'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to allot to
Meaning: to allot to
Strong's Concordance
consort with. From pros and kleroo; to give a common lot to, i.e. (figuratively) to associate with -- consort with.
see GREEK pros
see GREEK kleroo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4345: προσκληρόωπροσκληρόω, προσκλήρω: 1 aorist passive 3 person plural προσεκληρώθησαν; to add or assign to by lot, to allot: προσεκληρώθησαν τῷ Παύλῳ, were allotted by God to Paul, viz., as disciples, followers, Acts 17:4 (Winers Grammar, § 39, 2 at the end; others give it a middle force, joined their lot to, attached themselves to (A. V. consorted with); cf. leg. ad Gaium § 10 and other examples from Philo as below). (Plutarch, mor., p. 738 d.; Lucian, am. 3; frequent in Philo, cf. Loesner, Observations, p. 209ff.)
STRONGS NT 4345a: προσκλίνωπροσκλίνω: 1 aorist passive 3 person singular προσεκλίθη;
1. transitive, (to cause) to lean against (cf. πρός, IV, 4) (Homer, Pindar).
2. intransitive, τίνι, to incline toward one, lean to his side or party: Polybius 4, 51, 5, etc.; 1 aorist passive προσεκλιθην with a middle significance to join oneself to one: Acts 5:36 L T Tr WH ((cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 14)); 2 Macc. 14:24; τοῖς δικαίοις προσεκλίθη, Schol. ad Aristophanes, Plutarch, 1027; προσεκλιθητε τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 47, 4 [ET] and in other later writings.