GreekG8911Verb
προσβάλλω
prosballō
“to strike up”
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Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.to strike or dash against, *τί τινι *(Iliad by Homer); ἀψῖδα πέτρῳ πρ. letting it dash against, (Euripides); τὸν πρὶν ὄλβον ἕρματι πρ. to wreck his happiness on a rock, (Aeschulus Tragicus); πρ. *θηρία τινί *to set them on him, (Demosthenes Orator); πρ. *δόρυ τινί *(Euripides):—;without any notion of violence, to put to, apply, μαλακὰν χέρα πρ. [ ἕλκει] of a surgeon, (Pindar); πρ. *παρειὰν παρηίδι *(Euripides); *ὄμματα τέκνοις *(Euripides)
2.to assign to, procure for, *κέρδος τινί *(Herdotus Historicus); πρ. *Λακεδαιμονίοις Ὀλυμπιάδα *to give them the honour of an Olympic victory, (Herdotus Historicus); πρ. *κακὸν τῇ πόλει *(Aeschulus Tragicus); *εὔκλειαν σαυτῇ *(Sophocles Tragicus); πρ. δεῖμά τινι, Lat. incutere timorem alicui, (Euripides)
3.with accusative of the object struck, ἀρούρας προσβάλλειν, of the Sun, to strike the earth with his rays, (Homer); of smells, *βροτοῦ *[ ὀσμὴ] *με προσέβαλε *(Aristophanes Comicus)
4.metaphorically to attend to a thing or to add, (Sophocles Tragicus)
5.*μή μ᾽ ἀνάγκῃ προσβάλῃς τάδ᾽ εἰκαθεῖν *do not drive me by force to give way, (Sophocles Tragicus)
6.intransitive to strike against, to make an attack or assault upon, *τινί *(Aeschulus Tragicus), etc.; *πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος *(Herdotus Historicus):—;absolute to attack, charge, (Herdotus Historicus); *προσβαλὼν αἱρεῖ τὴν πόλιν *by assault, (Xenophon Historicus)
7.to put in with a ship, *ἐς τὸν λιμένα *(Thucydides); *πρὸς Τάραντα *(Thucydides)
8.Mid. to throw oneself upon, attack, *τινα *(Iliad by Homer)
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προσβάλλω appears 0 times in the New Testament.
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