Prosphoneo means “call unto” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4377 — meker (“merchandise”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4377 προσφωνέω (prosphoneo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prosphoneo (pros-fo-neh'-o) v. 1. to sound towards, i.e. address, exclaim, summon [from G4314 and G5455] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include calling, called, and unto. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
prosphoneo (pros-fo-neh'-o) v. 1. to sound towards, i.e. address, exclaim, summon [from G4314 and G5455] KJV: call unto, speak (un-)to Root(s): G4314, G5455
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4377. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to call to/summon
Usage: προσ-φωνέω, -ῶ [in LXX: 1Es.2:21 Est.6:6 Est.6:22, 2Ma.15:15 * ;] __1. to address, call to; in cl., with accusative of person(s), with dupl. accusative (cf. 2Mac, l.with); absol. (Hom., Od., v, 159, al.): Act.21:40 In late writers, with dative of person(s): Mat.11:16, Luk.7:32 13:12 23:20, Act.22:2. __2. to call by name, summon: with accusative (as in cl.), Luk.6:13.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prosphoneo, 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.
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Strong's G4377 (προσφωνέω) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Bishlam, and Mithridates, and Tabeel, and Rehum, and Beltethmus, and Shimshai the secretary, with the rest that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem this letter following;
and they were not hindered from building, until such time as signification was given unto Darius concerning them, and an answer received.
Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be made among the records of King Cyrus:
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4377.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Bishlam, and Mithridates, and Tabeel, and Rehum, and Beltethmus, and Shimshai the secretary, with the rest that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem this letter following;
and they were not hindered from building, until such time as signification was given unto Darius concerning them, and an answer received.
Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be made among the records of King Cyrus:
Whereupon Jeremiah holding forth his right hand gave to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it spoke thus,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4377, grouped by book.
Prosphoneo (Strong's G4377) is a Greek word most simply glossed "call unto". prosphoneo (pros-fo-neh'-o) v. 1. to sound towards, i.e. address, exclaim, summon [from G4314 and G5455]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G4377 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4377 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as calling, called, and unto. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4377, with linked reader references where each row is available.