GreekG8929Verb
πρόσκειμαι
proskeimai
“to join up with”
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Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.to be placed or laid by or upon, to lie by or upon, *οὔατα προσέκειτο *handles were upon it, (Iliad by Homer); *τῇ θύρᾳ προσκεῖσθαι *to keep close to the door, (Aristophanes Comicus); *δοκοὶ τείχει προσκείμεναι *lying near the wall, (Thucydides):—; ὁ *προσκείμενος ἵππος *the inside horse (turning a corner), (Sophocles Tragicus)
2.to lie beside, cling to, (Sophocles Tragicus): of a woman, to be given to wife, *τινί *(Herdotus Historicus)
3.generally, to be involved in or bound up with good or evil, with dative, (Sophocles Tragicus)
4.to be attached or devoted to, *τινί *(Herdotus Historicus), etc.; πρ. *λεγομένῳ *to put faith in a story, (Herdotus Historicus); πρ. *οἴνῳ *to be addicted to wine, (Herdotus Historicus); *ἄγραις *hunting, (Sophocles Tragicus), etc.
5.to press upon, be urgent with a person, with dative, (Herdotus Historicus); *προσκείμενος *with zeal, (Thucydides)
6.in military sense, to press close or hard, pursue closely, *τινί *(Thucydides); absolute to follow close, (Aristophanes Comicus); *τὸ προσκείμενον *the enemy, (Herdotus Historicus)
7.with a thing for the subject, to fall to, belong to, *τοῖσι θεῶν τιμὴ αὕτη προσκέαται *(Herdotus Historicus); πρ. *τινι δοῦλος *(Euripides):—; to be laid upon as a charge, to do something, with infinitive, (Herdotus Historicus)
8.to be added or attached to, (Sophocles Tragicus):—;absolute, ἡ *χάρις προσκείσεται *(Sophocles Tragicus)
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πρόσκειμαι appears 0 times in the New Testament.
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