προσκαλέομαι
to call to
‘to call to’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 20 times (69%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (7%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (7%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (3%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (3%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (3%)
- Verb, Perfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (3%)
- Verb, Perfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 29 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4341 appears — 29 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 6 verses
- Matthew 10:1 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
- Matthew 15:10 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.
- Matthew 15:32 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
- Matthew 18:2 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them,
- Matthew 18:32 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
- Matthew 20:25 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Mark 9 verses
- Mark 3:13 προσκαλεῖται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.
- Mark 3:23 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
- Mark 6:7 προσκαλεῖται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
- Mark 7:14 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.
- Mark 8:1 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
- Mark 8:34 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 10:42 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
- Mark 12:43 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
- Mark 15:44 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 7:19 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"
- Luke 15:26 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
- Luke 16:5 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'
- Luke 18:16 προσεκαλέσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Acts 9 verses
- Acts 2:39 προσκαλέσηται aor mid.dep subj 3sg For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
- Acts 5:40 προσκαλεσάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
- Acts 6:2 προσκαλεσάμενοι aor mid.dep ptcp nom pl masc The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
- Acts 13:2 προσκέκλημαι perf mid/pass.dep ind 1sg As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."
- Acts 13:7 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
- Acts 16:10 προσκέκληται perf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
- Acts 23:17 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."
- Acts 23:18 προσκαλεσάμενός aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."
- Acts 23:23 προσκαλεσάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."
James 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
προσκαλεομαι — transliterated proskaléomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to call to.” The King James Version usually renders it “called,” while modern versions prefer “having summoned” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. With 29 verses in 5 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Mark (31% of all occurrences). Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. See the sense tree, 29-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4341 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 →
- 29
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 29 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #471
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 471 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 29 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
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 29 distinct verses.
- Gospels 19 verses · 66%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 13 verses · 45%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 3%
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: Called 11×, He called 6×, He had called 3×
- American Standard Version: Called 12×, He called 6×, Calling 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Called 9×, Summoned 3×, Called them together 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having summoned 14×, Summoning 5×, Calling 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4341 across 30 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4341 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G4341 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G4341 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 4 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.
- to call to
- to call to one's self
- to bid to come to one's self
- metaph.
Word origin
Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G4341 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4341, 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
- προσαγορευω prosagoreúō G4316 to address
- προσαγω proságō G4317 to bring
- προσαιτεω prosaitéō G4319 to ask alms
- προσαναβαινω prosanabaínō G4320 to go up higher
- προσαναλισκω prosanalískō G4321 to spend additionally
- προσαναπληροω prosanaplēróō G4322 to fill up
- προσανατιθημι prosanatíthēmi G4323 to lay upon
- προσαπειλεω prosapeiléō G4324 to threaten further
- προσδαπαναω prosdapanáō G4325 to spend besides
- προσδεομαι prosdéomai G4326 to need additionally
- προσδεχομαι prosdéchomai G4327 to receive to oneself
- προσδοκαω prosdokáō G4328 to expect
- προσεαω proseáō G4330 to permit approach
- προσεγγιζω prosengízō G4331 to approach
- προσεδρευω prosedreúō G4332 to sit near
- προσεργαζομαι prosergázomai G4333 to work besides
- προσερχομαι prosérchomai G4334 to draw near
- προσευχομαι proseúchomai G4336 to pray
- προσεχω proséchō G4337 to attend to
- προσηλοω prosēlóō G4338 to nail to
- προσκαιρος próskairos G4340 temporary
- προσκαρτερεω proskarteréō G4342 to adhere to
- προσκεφαλαιον proskephálaion G4344 pillow
- προσκληροω prosklēróō G4345 to allot
+27 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 53 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word προσκαλεομαι appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 9 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 28:1 προςκαλέω
- Exodus 3:18 προςκαλέω
- 1 Samuel 26:14 προςκαλέω
- Esther 4:5 προςκαλέω
- Job 19:17 προςκαλέω
- Psalms 49:4 προςκαλέω
- Proverbs 9:15 προςκαλέω
- Joel 3:5 προςκαλέω
- Amos 5:8 προςκαλέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4341) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 28:1 προςκαλέω Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Exodus 3:18 προςκαλέω They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 5:3 προςκαλέω They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- 1 Samuel 26:14 προςκαλέω and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, Who are you who cries to the king?
- Esther 4:5 προςκαλέω Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.
- Esther 8:1 προςκαλέω On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
- Job 19:17 προςκαλέω My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Psalms 49:4 προςκαλέω I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
- Proverbs 9:15 προςκαλέω To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their ways,
- Joel 3:5 προςκαλέω Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
- Amos 5:8 προςκαλέω Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
- Amos 9:6 προςκαλέω It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4341) 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.
