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προσλαμβάνω

to receive

G4355 Strong's Greek
proslambánō Transliteration
/pros-lam-ban'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 12 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb προσλαμβανω centers on the idea of “to receive.” It first appears in Matthew 16:22. It turns up in 11 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Acts (45%), then Romans and Matthew. Sharing its root, it stands alongside προς, προσαγορευω and προσαγω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
receive
Modern gloss
to receive
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 G4355 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 →

11
distinct verses
The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 16:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 16:22.
Philemon 1:17
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Philemon 1:17.
#904
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 18%
  • Acts 5 · 45%
  • Pauline Epistles 4 · 36%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • 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 11 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 45%
  • Pauline corpus 4 verses · 36%
  • Gospels 2 verses · 18%

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: Took 3×, Receive 2×, Receive ye 2×
  • American Standard Version: Took 3×, Receive 2×, Received 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Accept 2×, Took him aside 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Aside 3×, Accept 2×, Having taken 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4355 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Took” 3×
  • “Receive” 2×
  • “Receive ye” 2×
  • “Received” 2×

Plus 6 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 G4355 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Took” 3×
  • “Receive” 2×
  • “Received” 2×

Plus 7 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 G4355 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Accept” 2×
  • “Took him aside” 2×

Plus 8 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 G4355 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Aside” 3×
  • “Accept” 2×
  • “Having taken” 2×
  • “Took” 2×

Plus 6 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 1 sense 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 take to, take in addition, to take to one's self

Word origin

Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 04:15,5

From G4314 and G2983 ; to take to oneself that is use (food) lead (aside) admit (to friendship or hospitality): - receive take (unto).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G4355 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
προσελάβοντο proselábonto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 18:26 3
προσελάβετο proselábeto Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 14:3 2
προσλαβόμενοι proslabómenoi Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 17:5 2
προσλαβόμενος proslabómenos Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 16:22 2
προσλαμβάνεσθε proslambánesthe Verb, Present, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Romans 14:1 2
προσλαβοῦ proslaboû Verb, Aorist, Middle, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Philemon 1:17 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4355, 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 προσλαμβανω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 2 books.

5
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
5
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4355) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4355) 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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