προσεάω
proseáō · G4330 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to allow to go farther
To allow to go beyond what is expected
ExamplesActs 27:7 When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone;
How it’s used In 3 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
- ἄνεμοςwind 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 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
- ἐπιτρέπω epitrépō · G2010 · to allow, to let, to permit
- Standard Greek verb for granting permission or allowing something to happen; frequently used in contexts of permitting movement or progress (Acts 27:3, 28:16)
Contrasting words 1 word
- κωλύω kōlýō · G2967 · to prevent, to hinder
- Direct lexical opposite: to prevent or hinder progress versus to permit progress; standard antonym in Greek lexicography for permission verbs
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To allow to go farther13.139
- The verb describes permitting continued progress in a direction already underway. Luke's account of Paul's voyage to Rome uses this term: “When we had sailed slowly for a good many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, since the wind did not permit us to go farther, we sailed under the shelter of Crete, off Salmone” (Acts 27:7).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσέω; to permit one to approach or arrive: Acts 27:7 (R. V. text to suffer further;…
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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