◄ G4339 ►
προσήλυτος
Transliteration
proselutos;
Pronunciation
pros-ay'-loo-tos
Parts of Speech
adj
Root Word (Etymology)
from the alternate of 4334
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: TDNT 6:727
KJV Translation Count — 4x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: proselyte (4)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1. a newcomer
a. a stranger, alien
2. a proselyte
a. one who has come over from a Gentile religion to Judaism
The Rabbis distinguished two classes of proselytes, proselytes of righteousness, who received circumcision and bound themselves to keep the whole of the Mosaic law and to comply with all the requirements of Judaism, and proselytes of the gate, who dwelt among the Jews, and although uncircumcised observed certain specific laws, esp. the seven precepts of Noah, i.e. against the seven chief sins, idolatry, blasphemy against God, homicide, unchastity, theft or plundering, rebellion against rulers and the use of "flesh with the blood thereof".
Strong's Definitions
pros-ay'-loo-tos; from the alternate of (4334) (προσέρχομαι); an arriver from a foreign region, i.e. (special) an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte"): — proselyte.
Concordance Results Using KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one G4339, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and G4339s,
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a G4339 of Antioch:
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious G4339s followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.