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προσήλυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσήλυτος προσήλυτον

Structure: προσηλυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: proselh/luqa

Sense

  1. one that has arrived at, a sojourner

Examples

  • καὶ προσήλυτον οὐ κακώσετε, οὐδὲ μὴ θλίψητε αὐτόν. ἦτε γὰρ προσήλυτοι ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:21)
  • καὶ προσήλυτον οὐ θλίψετε. ὑμεῖσ γὰρ οἴδατε τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ προσηλύτου. αὐτοὶ γὰρ προσήλυτοι ἦτε ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:9)
  • ποιῶν κρίσιν προσηλύτῳ καὶ ὀρφανῷ καὶ χήρᾳ, καὶ ἀγαπᾷ τὸν προσήλυτον δοῦναι αὐτῷ ἄρτον καὶ ἱμάτιον. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 10:18)
  • καὶ ἀγαπήσετε τὸν προσήλυτον. προσήλυτοι γὰρ ἦτε ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 10:19)
  • ἐκκλησιάσασ τὸν λαόν, τοὺσ ἄνδρασ καὶ τὰσ γυναῖκασ καὶ τὰ ἔκγονα καὶ τὸν προσήλυτον τὸν ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν ὑμῶν, ἵνα ἀκούσωσι καὶ ἵνα μάθωσι φοβεῖσθαι Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ὑμῶν, καὶ ἀκούσονται ποιεῖν πάντασ τούσ λόγουσ τοῦ νόμου τούτου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 31:12)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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