Proslambano means “receive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4355 — makak (“be brought low”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4355 προσλαμβάνω (proslambano) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proslambano (pros-lam-ban'-o) v. 1. to take to oneself, i.e. use (food), lead (aside), admit (to friendship or hospitality) [from G4314 and G2983] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include receive and take. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
proslambano (pros-lam-ban'-o) v. 1. to take to oneself, i.e. use (food), lead (aside), admit (to friendship or hospitality) [from G4314 and G2983] KJV: receive, take (unto) Root(s): G4314, G2983
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4355. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to take
Usage: προσ-λαμβάνω [in LXX: Psa.18:16 (מָשָׁה hi.), Psa.73:24 (לָקַח), etc. ;] __1. to take in addition. __2. to take to oneself, take, receive; in NT always mid., -ομαι; __(a) of things: of food, with accusative, Act.27:33; with genitive part., Act.27:36; __(b) of persons: with accusative, Mat.16:22, Mrk.8:32 (see Swete, in l), Act.17:5 18:26 28:2, Rom.14:1, 3 15:7, Phm 17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proslambano, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4355 (προσλαμβάνω) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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13 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.
He sent from on high and took me, He drew me to himself out of many waters.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, But the Lord has taken me to himself.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men.
and therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.
They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4355.
For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.
He sent from on high and took me, He drew me to himself out of many waters.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, But the Lord has taken me to himself.
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and adopted; He shall dwell in thy courts; We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; Thy temple is holy.
Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, And thou hast taken me to thyself with glory.
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men.
and therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.
They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4355, grouped by book.
Proslambano (Strong's G4355) is a Greek word most simply glossed "receive". proslambano (pros-lam-ban'-o) v. 1. to take to oneself, i.e. use (food), lead (aside), admit (to friendship or hospitality) [from G4314 and G2983]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4355 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4355 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as receive and take. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4355, with linked reader references where each row is available.