Lexicon prosagógé: a bringing to Original Word: προσαγωγή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: prosagógé Phonetic Spelling: (pros-ag-ogue-ay') Short Definition: approach, access Definition: approach, access, admission. HELPS word-Studies 4318 prosagōgḗ (from 4314 /prós, "with, towards" and 71 /ágō, "come") – properly, come towards (near); have access (approach), with intimate (face-to-face) interaction (note the prefix pros). All three occasions of 4318 /prosagōgḗ ("interactive access") refer to "having audience (direct access) with God" (J. B. Lightfoot, MM). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom prosagóDefinitiona bringing to NASB Translationaccess (2), introduction (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4318: προσαγωγήπροσαγωγή, προσαγωγης, ἡ; 1. the act of bringing to, a moving to (Thucydides, Aristotle, Polybius, others). 2. access, approach (Herodotus 2, 58; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 45) (others, as Meyer on Romans, as below (yet see Weiss in the 6th edition), Ellicott on Ephesians, insist on the transitive sense, introduction): εἰς τήν χάριν, Romans 5:2; to God, i. e. (dropping the figure) that friendly relation with God whereby we are acceptable to him and have assurance that he is favorably disposed toward us, Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12.
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