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προσάγω

to bring

‘to bring’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G4317 Strong's Greek
proságō Transliteration
/pros-ag'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 4 appearances

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About this entry

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προσαγω — transliterated proságō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to bring.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (50% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is Luke 9:41. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bring
Modern gloss
to bring
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4317 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

4
distinct verses
The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Luke 9:41
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Luke 9:41.
1 Peter 3:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 3:18.
#1,877
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 25%
  • Acts 2 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 25%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 75%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 25%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Bring 1×, Brought 1×, Drew near 1×
  • American Standard Version: Bring 1×, He might bring 1×, They had brought 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Bring 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be approaching 1×, Bring 1×, Having brought 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4317 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bring” 1×
  • “Brought” 1×
  • “Drew near” 1×
  • “He might bring” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4317 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bring” 1×
  • “He might bring” 1×
  • “They had brought” 1×
  • “Were drawing near to” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4317 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bring” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4317 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Be approaching” 1×
  • “Bring” 1×
  • “Having brought” 1×
  • “He might bring” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to open a way of access, for one to God
  2. in a forensic sense, to summon (to trial or punishment)
  3. to draw near to, approach

Word origin

Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 03:11,2

From G4314 and G71 ; to lead towards that is (transitively) to conduct near ( summon present ) or (intransitively) to approach : - bring draw near

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G4317 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
προσάγαγε proságage Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 9:41 1
προσάγειν proságein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Acts 27:27 1
προσαγάγῃ prosagágē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 Peter 3:18 1
προσαγαγόντες prosagagóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 16:20 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4317, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+27 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 54 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word προσαγω appears 147 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 129 verses in 19 books.

147
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
129
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4317) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 129. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4317) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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