Lexical Summary prosagoreuō: to address, to call by name Original Word: προσαγορεύωTransliteration: prosagoreuō Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ag-or-yoo'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to address, to call by name Meaning: to address, to call by name Strong's Concordance call, designateFrom pros and a derivative of agora (mean to harangue); to address, i.e. Salute by name -- call. see GREEK pros see GREEK agora Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4316: προσαγορεύωπροσαγορεύω: 1 aorist passive participle προσαγορευθείς; to speak to, to address, accost, salute (Aeschyl, Herodotus, Aristph., Xenophon, Plato, others); especially to address or accost by some name, call by name: τινα with a predicate accusative, and in the passive with a predicate nominative (1 Macc. 14:40; 2 Macc. 14:37), Hebrews 5:10. (to give a name to publicly, to style, τινα or τί with a predicate accusative, Xenophon, mem. 3, 2, 1; Γάϊος Ἰούλιος Καῖσαρ ὁ διά τάς πράξεις προσαγορευθείς Θεός, Diodorus 1, 4; add (Wis. 14:22); 2 Macc. 4:7 2Macc. 10:9 2Macc. 14:37; φρούριον ... Καισάρειαν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ προσαγορευθεν, Josephus, Antiquities 15, 8, 5.) Cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrews 2:2, p. 97f. |