προσδέομαι
prosdéomai · G4326 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be in need of something more, to lack something additional
To need or lack something further or in addition
ExamplesActs 17:25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- χρῄζω chrḗizō · G5535 · to need, to lack, to be without
- Greek verb expressing need or requirement, semantically overlapping with the basic idea of wanting/requiring something; the core distinction is that προσδέομαι (prosdéomai, G4326) explicitly adds the προσ- prefix specifying additional or further need, while χρῄζω (chrḗizō, G5535) denotes need in general without that specification.
Contrasting words 1 word
- περισσεύω perisseúō · G4052 · to abound, to be in abundance, to be a lot of
- Greek verb expressing abundance or having more than enough, the lexical opposite of lacking or requiring something additional
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָסֵר châçêr · H2637 · to lack, to be lacking, to fail
- Hebrew verb expressing the state of lacking or needing something, a direct translation-equivalent for the Greek idea of requiring/wanting additionally
- חָסֵר châçêr · H2638 · lacking, short of
- Hebrew adjective expressing lack or need, closely equivalent to the semantic field of requiring something further
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be in need of something more, to lack something additional57.45
- The verb describes lacking something further that must be supplied. Paul's sermon at the Areopagus uses this term: “nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things” (Acts 17:25).
Word family 42 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon deponent passive, to want besides, need in addition, (cf. πρός, IV. 2): προσδεόμενός…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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