Original Word: προσκολλάω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: proskollaó
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-kol-lah'-o)
Short Definition: I join closely, cleave to
Definition: (lit: I glue one thing to another), I join (unite) closely, cleave (to), follow as an adherent.

4347 proskolláō (from 4314 /prós, "towards" and 2853 /kolláō, "to glue") – properly, "to glue in" (from extending towards), i.e. to cleave (join with) someone in a personal ("interfacing") relationship. 4347 /proskolláō (literally, "glue to another") suggests "a more permanent association, focusing upon reciprocal relations" (L & N, 1, 448, fn 5; so also in Plato).

STRONGS NT 4347: προσκολλάω

προσκολλάω, προσκόλλω: 1 aorist passive προσεκολλήθην; 1 future passive προσκολληθήσομαι; the Sept. for דָּבַק; to glue upon, glue to (cf. πρός, IV. 4); properly, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 12, 4; tropical in the passive with a reflexive force, to join oneself to closely, cleave to, stick to (Plato): with the dative of a person (Sir. 6:34 Sir. 13:16), Acts 5:36 Rec. (see προσκλίνω, 2); τῇ γυναικί, Matthew 19:5 Rec. (others, κολληθήσεται, which see): Mark 10:7 Lachmann; Ephesians 5:31 L T Tr WH marginal reading; πρός τήν γυναῖκα (from Genesis 2:24), Mark 10:7, R G Tr text; Ephesians 5:31 R G WH text (Cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52,4,14.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cleave, join self.

From pros and kollao; to glue to, i.e. (figuratively) to adhere -- cleave, join (self).

see GREEK pros

see GREEK kollao

Forms and Transliterations

προσεκολλήθη προσεκολλήθησαν προσκολλάσθαι προσκολληθείς προσκολληθήσεσθε προσκολληθησεται προσκολληθήσεται προσκολληθήσονται προσκολλήθητι προσκολλήσαι προσκολλήσω προσκολλώμενοι proskollethesetai proskollethḗsetai proskollēthēsetai proskollēthḗsetai

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