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προσφέρω

to bring to

‘to bring to’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G4374 Strong's Greek
prosphérō Transliteration
/pros-fer'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 49 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.

“to bring to” is the headline sense of the Greek verb προσφερω (prosphérō). Lexicons map it across 4 senses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 46 verses — moderately common. More than a third of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:11. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bring
Modern gloss
to bring to
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G4374 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 →

46
distinct verses
The word appears in 46 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:11
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:11.
Hebrews 12:7
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Hebrews 12:7.
#316
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 316 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 46 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 24 · 52%
  • Acts 3 · 7%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 19 · 41%
  • 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 46 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 24 verses · 52%
  • Hebrews 19 verses · 41%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 15%
  • Johannine 2 verses · 4%

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: Offer 8×, They brought 7×, Brought 3×
  • American Standard Version: Offer 8×, They brought 4×, Brought 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Offer 9×, Brought 3×, Offered 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Offer 8×, They brought 4×, Offered 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4374 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Offer” 8×
  • “They brought” 7×
  • “Brought” 3×
  • “Offered” 3×
  • “He offered” 2×
  • “Offered up” 2×
  • “Offering” 2×
  • “Was brought” 2×

Plus 18 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 G4374 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Offer” 8×
  • “They brought” 4×
  • “Brought” 3×
  • “Offered” 3×
  • “Was brought” 3×
  • “Are offered” 2×
  • “He offereth” 2×
  • “They were bringing” 2×

Plus 20 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 G4374 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Offer” 9×
  • “Brought” 3×
  • “Offered” 3×
  • “Was brought” 3×
  • “He offered” 2×
  • “Present the offering” 2×
  • “Presented” 2×
  • “Were brought” 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 G4374 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Offer” 8×
  • “They brought” 4×
  • “Offered” 3×
  • “Offering” 3×
  • “They were bringing” 3×
  • “Bring” 2×
  • “Brought” 2×
  • “He offers” 2×
  • “Offered up” 2×
  • “Was brought” 2×

Plus 20 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.

  1. one to a person who can heal him or is ready to show him some kindness, one to a person who is to judge him
  2. to bring a present or a thing, to reach or hand a thing to one
  3. to put to
  4. to be borne towards one, to attack, assail

Word origin

Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 10:05,1

From G4314 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear towards that is lead to tender (especially to God) treat : - bring (to unto) deal with do offer (unto up) present unto put to.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 28 distinct written forms G4374 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
προσήνεγκαν prosḗnenkan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 2:11 7
προσήνεγκεν prosḗnenken Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 25:20 4
προσενέγκας prosenénkas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 5:7 3
προσηνέχθη prosēnéchthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:22 3
προσφέρειν prosphérein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive John 16:2 3
προσένεγκε prosénenke Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Mark 1:44 2
προσέφερον prosépheron Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 9:2 2
προσηνέγκατέ prosēnénkaté Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 23:14 2
προσφέρονται prosphérontai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Hebrews 9:9 2
προσφέρουσιν prosphérousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 10:13 2
προσφέρῃ prosphérē Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 5:1 2
Προσέφερον Prosépheron Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 18:15 1
προσένεγκον prosénenkon Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 8:4 1
προσέφερεν prosépheren Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 11:17 1
προσήνεγκα prosḗnenka Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 17:16 1
προσενέγκαι prosenénkai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Mark 2:4 1
προσενέγκῃ prosenénkē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 8:3 1
προσενήνοχεν prosenḗnochen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular, Attic form Hebrews 11:17 1
προσενεχθεὶς prosenechtheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 9:28 1
προσηνέχθησαν prosēnéchthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 19:13 1
προσφέρει prosphérei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 9:7 1
προσφέρεται prosphéretai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 12:7 1
προσφέροντες prosphérontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 23:36 1
προσφέρων prosphérōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 10:11 1
προσφέρῃς prosphérēs Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:23 1
προσφερόμεναι prospherómenai Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Hebrews 10:2 1
προσφερόντων prospheróntōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 8:4 1
πρόσφερε prósphere Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:24 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4374, 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 προσφερω appears 136 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 124 verses in 19 books.

136
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
124
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 (G4374) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 124. 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 (G4374) 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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