πρόσκλισις
prósklisis · G4346 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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prejudice, partiality
A decided and unjustified preference for something or someone
Examples1 Timothy 5:21 I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down 2
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Near synonyms 1 word
- προσωποληψία prosōpolēpsía · G4382 · to show favoritism, to be partial, partiality
- Both terms denote favoritism or partiality in judgment. προσωποληψία (also a rare word in NT) and πρόσκλισις are functionally interchangeable in referring to biased preference, though προσωποληψία emphasizes the 'receiving' aspect while πρόσκλισις emphasizes the 'leaning toward' aspect.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Prejudice, partiality88.241
- The noun names an unfair leaning toward one party over another. Paul's charge to Timothy uses this term: “I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality” (1 Timothy 5:21).
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσκλησεως, ἡ, 1. a judicial summons: Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes. 2. an…
1. a judicial summons: Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes.
2. an invitation: μηδέν ποιῶν κατά πρόσκλησιν, 1 Tim 5:21 L Tr marginal reading; this reading, unless (as can hardly be doubted) it be due to itacism, must be translated by invitation, i. e. the invitation or summons of those who seek to draw you over to their side (see quotations in Tdf. at the passage Cf. πρόσκλισις.)
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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