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προσκυνέω

to worship

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G4352 Strong's Greek
proskynéō Transliteration
/pros-koo-neh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 59 appearances

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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.

προσκυνεω (proskynéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to worship.” The King James Version also renders it “worshipped,” a usage modern versions have dropped for “worship” — see the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 53 verses across 8 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Revelation, which alone accounts for 42% of its uses. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
worship
Modern gloss
to worship
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 G4352 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 →

53
distinct verses
The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
8 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:2.
Revelation 22:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:9.
#275
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 275 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 53 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 24 · 45%
  • Acts 4 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 2%
  • General Epistles 2 · 4%
  • Revelation 22 · 42%

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 53 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 29 verses · 55%
  • Gospels 24 verses · 45%
  • Revelation 22 verses · 42%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 11%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 4%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 2%

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: Worship 28×, Worshipped 20×, They worshipped 3×
  • American Standard Version: Worship 24×, Worshipped 17×, Shall worship 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Worship 26×, Worshiped 12×, Knelt before 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Worship 19×, Worshiped 8×, Ones worshiping 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4352 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Worship” 28×
  • “Worshipped” 20×
  • “They worshipped” 3×
  • “Shall worship” 2×
  • “Thou shalt worship” 2×

Plus 9 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 G4352 across 63 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Worship” 24×
  • “Worshipped” 17×
  • “Shall worship” 3×
  • “They worshipped” 3×
  • “Thou shalt worship” 2×

Plus 14 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 G4352 across 60 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Worship” 26×
  • “Worshiped” 12×
  • “Knelt before” 2×
  • “They worshiped” 2×
  • “Will worship” 2×
  • “Worshipers” 2×

Plus 14 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 G4352 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Worship” 19×
  • “Worshiped” 8×
  • “Ones worshiping” 4×
  • “They worshiped” 4×
  • “You will worship” 3×
  • “Bowed down” 2×
  • “Will worship” 2×
  • “Worshiping” 2×

Plus 21 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 kiss the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence
  2. among the Orientals…
  3. in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance…

Word origin

Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 18:38,9

From G4314 and probably a derivative of G2965 (meaning to kiss like a dog licking his master´ s hand); to fawn or crouch to that is (literally or figuratively) prostrate oneself in homage ( do reverence to adore ): - worship.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 23 distinct written forms G4352 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
προσεκύνησαν prosekýnēsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 2:11 12
προσκυνήσουσιν proskynḗsousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 4:23 8
προσκυνοῦντας proskynoûntas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine John 4:23 5
προσεκύνει prosekýnei Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 8:2 4
προσεκύνησεν prosekýnēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 5:6 4
προσκυνεῖν proskyneîn Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive John 4:20 3
προσκυνῆσαι proskynē̂sai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 2:2 3
προσκυνήσεις proskynḗseis Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 4:10 2
προσκυνήσων proskynḗsōn Verb, Future, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 8:27 2
προσκυνήσῃς proskynḗsēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 4:9 2
προσκύνησον proskýnēson Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Revelation 19:10 2
προσεκύνουν prosekýnoun Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 15:19 1
προσκυνήσατε proskynḗsate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Revelation 14:7 1
προσκυνήσει proskynḗsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 14:25 1
προσκυνήσετε proskynḗsete Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 4:21 1
προσκυνήσω proskynḗsō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular Matthew 2:8 1
προσκυνήσωσιν proskynḗsōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural John 12:20 1
προσκυνεῖ proskyneî Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 14:9 1
προσκυνεῖτε proskyneîte Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 4:22 1
προσκυνησάτωσαν proskynēsátōsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Plural Hebrews 1:6 1
προσκυνοῦμεν proskynoûmen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural John 4:22 1
προσκυνοῦντες proskynoûntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 14:11 1
προσκυνοῦσα proskynoûsa Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 20:20 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4352, 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 προσκυνεω appears 181 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 174 verses in 25 books.

181
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
174
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
25 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4352) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 174. 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 (G4352) 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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