προσποιέομαι
prospoiéomai · G4364 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to pretend, to give the impression that, to act as though
To imitate a particular type of behavior as a means of indicating a presumed intent
ExamplesLuke 24:28 And they approached the village where they were going, and He gave the impression that He was going farther.
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
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πορεύομαιto go, to travel 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
- ὑποκρίνομαι hypokrínomai · G5271 · to pretend, to act hypocritically, pretense
- ὑποκρίνομαι is the standard Greek verb for pretending or feigning, originally meaning to play a role on stage. It shares the core semantic component of false appearance or pretense with προσποιέομαι, though ὑποκρίνομαι often carries more negative connotations of hypocrisy.
In the other Testament 1 word
- נָכַר nâkar · H5234 · to recognize, to identify, to acknowledge
- The Niphal form of נָכַר carries the sense of disguising oneself or feigning to be someone else, semantically parallel to προσποιέομαι's meaning of pretending or acting as if about to do something. This is the verb used when individuals in the Hebrew Bible pretend to be someone they are not.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To pretend, to give the impression that, to act as though41.49
- The verb describes acting in a manner intended to create a false impression. Luke's account of the road to Emmaus uses this term: “And they approached the village where they were going, and He gave the impression that He was going farther” (Luke 24:28).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : middle, present participle προσποιούμενος (see below); imperfect 3 person singular…
1. to take or claim (a thing) to oneself.
2. to conform oneself to a thing, or rather to affect to oneself; therefore to pretend, followed by an infinitive (A. V. made as though he would etc.), Lk 24:28; κατέγραφεν εἰς τήν γῆν μή προσποιούμενος, Jn 8:6 according to manuscripts E G H K etc. (cf. Matthaei (1803 edition) at the passage). (So in Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, others; Diodorus 15, 46; Philo in Flac. § 6; (in § 12 followed by participle; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 1); Aelian v. h. 8, 5; Plutarch, Timol. 5; (Test xii. Patr., test. Jos. § 3).)
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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