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προσέρχομαι

to draw near

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

G4334 Strong's Greek
prosérchomai Transliteration
/pros-er'-khom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 87 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb προσερχομαι centers on the idea of “to draw near.” Matthew dominates its distribution — 51 of 86 verses. Spanning 86 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Its English rendering has broadened — “came” classically, “having approached” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Dig into 86-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
come
Modern gloss
to draw near
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4334 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 →

86
distinct verses
The word appears in 86 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:3
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:3.
1 Peter 2:4
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 2:4.
#198
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 198 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 86 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 67 · 78%
  • Acts 10 · 12%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 1%
  • General Epistles 8 · 9%
  • 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 86 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 67 verses · 78%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 20 verses · 23%
  • Hebrews 7 verses · 8%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 1%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 1%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 1%

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: Came 53×, He came 5×, Come 4×
  • American Standard Version: Came 46×, He came 5×, Came unto 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Came 37×, Went 9×, Came up 7×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having approached 37×, Approached 18×, Came 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4334 across 89 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 53×
  • “He came” 5×
  • “Come” 4×
  • “Coming” 3×
  • “Went” 3×

Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4334 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 46×
  • “He came” 5×
  • “Came unto” 4×
  • “Came to” 3×
  • “Come unto” 2×
  • “Coming” 2×

Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4334 across 85 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Came” 37×
  • “Went” 9×
  • “Came up” 7×
  • “Came to” 4×
  • “Came forward” 2×
  • “Draw near” 2×
  • “Going” 2×
  • “He went to” 2×

Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4334 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having approached” 37×
  • “Approached” 18×
  • “Came” 5×
  • “Coming” 4×
  • “Going” 3×
  • “Approach” 2×
  • “Approaching” 2×
  • “Come” 2×
  • “Come to” 2×
  • “Having come” 2×

Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


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 come to, approach
  2. draw near to
  3. to assent to

Word origin

Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:23,3

From G4314 and G2064 (including its alternate); to approach that is (literally) come near visit or (figuratively) worship assent to : - (as soon as he) come (unto) come thereunto consent draw near go (near to unto).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 21 distinct written forms G4334 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
προσελθὼν proselthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 4:3 24
προσελθόντες proselthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 8:25 16
προσῆλθον prosē̂lthon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 4:11 15
προσῆλθεν prosē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 8:5 8
προσέρχονται prosérchontai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 9:14 2
προσεληλύθατε proselēlýthate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Hebrews 12:18 2
προσελθοῦσα proselthoûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:20 2
προσερχομένου proserchoménou Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Luke 9:42 2
προσερχομένους proserchoménous Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 7:25 2
προσερχόμενοι proserchómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 23:36 2
προσερχώμεθα proserchṓmetha Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Hebrews 4:16 2
Προσελθόντες Proselthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 20:27 1
προσέρχεσθαι prosérchesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive Acts 10:28 1
προσέρχεται prosérchetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Timothy 6:3 1
προσήρχοντο prosḗrchonto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 28:9 1
προσελθοῦσαι proselthoûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 28:9 1
προσελθόντων proselthóntōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 26:60 1
προσερχόμενον proserchómenon Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 11:6 1
προσῆλθάν prosē̂lthán Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 13:31 1
προσῆλθαν prosē̂lthan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 5:1 1
πρόσελθε próselthe Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Acts 8:29 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4334, 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 προσερχομαι appears 80 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 79 verses in 19 books.

80
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
79
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 (G4334) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 79. 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 (G4334) 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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