Lexical Summary prosagō: to bring or lead to Original Word: προσάγωTransliteration: prosagō Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ag'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to bring or lead to Meaning: to bring or lead to Strong's Concordance bring, draw near. From pros and ago; to lead towards, i.e. (transitively) to conduct near (summon, present), or (intransitively) to approach -- bring, draw near. see GREEK pros see GREEK ago Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4317: προσάγωπροσάγω; 2 aorist προσήγαγον; 1 aorist passive προσηχθην (Matthew 18:24 L Tr WH); from Homer down; the Sept. for הִקְרִיב, הִגִּישׁ, sometimes for הֵבִיא; 1. transitively, to lead to, bring (see πρός, IV. 1): τινα ὧδε, Luke 9:41; τινα τίνι, one to one (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 14), Matthew 18:24 L Tr WH; Acts 16:20; to open a way of access, τινα τῷ Θεῷ, for (A. V. to bring) one to God, i. e. to render one acceptable to God and assured of his grace (a figure borrowed from those who secure for one the privilege of an interview with the sovereign), 1 Peter 3:18 (noteworthy is the use, without specification of the goal, in a forensic sense, to summon (to trial or punishment), Acts 12:6 WH text (where others προάγω, which see 1)). 2. intransitively (see ἄγω, 4), to draw near to, approach (Joshua 3:9; Jeremiah 26:3 STRONGS NT 4317: προσανέχωπροσανέχω; 1. to hold up besides. 2. intransitive, to rise up so as to approach, rise up toward: Acts 27:27 Lachmann stereotyped edition (see προσάγω, and προσαχέω) — a sense found nowhere else. STRONGS NT 4317: προσαχέω [προσαχέω, προσάχω, Doric for προσηχέω, to resound: Acts 27:27 WH marginal reading (see their Appendix, p. 151; others προσάγειν, which see), of the roar of the surf as indicating nearness to land to sailors at night.] |
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