προσκαλέομαι
proskaléomai · G4341 · Greek · 29 occurrences
Meanings
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to call, to call to
To call to, with a possible implication of a reciprocal relation
ExamplesMatthew 15:10 After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand!
Mark 3:13 And He went up on the mountain and summoned those whom He Himself wanted, and they came to Him.
Luke 7:18 The disciples of John also reported to him about all these things.
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to call, to call to a task
To urgently invite someone to accept responsibilities for a particular task, implying a new relationship to the one who does the calling
ExamplesMatthew 10:1 Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
Acts 13:2 While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set Barnabas and Saul apart for Me for the work to which I have called them.”
James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
How it’s used In 6 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
29 occurrences in 6 groups
- Not stated (participle) 22
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- θεόςGod 1
- ἸησοῦςJesus 1
- κύριοςLord 1
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
29 occurrences in 18 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 6
- μαθητήςdisciple 5
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 3
- Other words · 15 groups that occur once or twice (16) 16
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύνwith, together with+ μαθητήςdisciple 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πάλινagain, and, also 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔργονwork, deed 1
- μακρόςlong 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- συμβιβάζωto bring together 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
- προσφωνέω prosphōnéō · G4377 · to address, to speak out to, to call out to
- προσκαλέομαι denotes summoning someone toward oneself, often for a task or as an audience, while προσφωνέω denotes the act of addressing or calling out to someone. Both belong to the vocabulary of calling, distinguished by the direction and intent of the summons.
In the other Testament 1 word
- קָרָא qârâʼ · H7121 · to cry out, to read, to recite
- Hebrew קָרָא has broader application (call, proclaim, name) while Greek προσκαλέομαι specifically denotes summoning/calling someone toward oneself, but both share the core sense of 'call/summon' where קָרָא functions as the natural LXX rendering when the calling involves bringing someone to the speaker.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To call, to call to33.308
- The verb describes summoning a person to come near. Matthew's account of the sending of the twelve uses this term: “Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness” (Matthew 10:1).
- To call, to call to a task33.312
- The same verb, used of a summons to a specific charge, describes calling someone in order to assign or entrust a responsibility. Jesus' parable of the unforgiving slave uses this term: “Then summoning him, his master said to him, 'You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me'” (Matthew 18:32).
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσκάλω: middle, present προσκαλοῦμαι; 1 aorist προσεκαλεσαμην; perfect προσκέκλημαι;…
b. metaphorically, God is said προσκαλεῖσθαι the Gentiles, aliens as they are from him, by inviting and drawing them, through the preaching of the gospel, unto fellowship with himself in the Messiah's kingdom, Acts 2:39; the Holy Spirit and Christ are said to call unto themselves (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 39, 3) those preachers of the gospel to whom they have decided to intrust a service having reference to the extension of the gospel: followed by an infinitive indicating the purpose, Acts 16:10; followed by εἰς τί, Acts 13:2 (where ὁ is for εἰς ὁ, according to that familiar Greek usage by which a preposition prefixed to the antecedent is not repeated before the relative; cf. Winers Grammar, 421f (393); (Buttmann, 342 (294))).
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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