ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΣΑΙ, προσφωνησαι
PROSPHŌNĒSAI, prosphōnēsai
Sounds Like: pros-foh-NAY-sai
Translations: to address, to call to, to speak to, to call out to
From the root: ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, formed from the preposition πρός (pros), meaning 'to' or 'towards', and the verb φωνέω (phoneō), meaning 'to sound' or 'to speak'. Together, it means to direct one's voice towards someone, hence to address or speak to them. It is used when someone calls out to another person or speaks to them directly.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G4377 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΡΟΣΕΦΩΝΕΙ — he addressed, he spoke to, he called to, he accosted
- ΠΡΟΣΕΦΩΝΗΣΕΝ — called to, addressed, spoke to
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΕΩ — to call to, to address, to speak to, to accost
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ — of those who were addressed, of those who were called to, of those who were spoken to, of those who were saluted
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΘΗΝΑΙ — to be addressed, to be called to, to be spoken to
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΣΑΣ — having called to, having addressed, having spoken to
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΣΑΤΩ — let him speak to, let him address, let him call to, let him greet
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΟΥΝΤΑ — calling to, addressing, speaking to
- ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΟΥΣΙΝ — they call to, they address, they speak to
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