To bring to
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G4374 is a broad verb for bringing, presenting, offering, or treating someone in a particular way. Its forty-seven governed forms describe gifts presented to Jesus, sick or vulnerable people brought for help, children brought to Jesus, offerings under the law, accused people brought before authorities, money offered for spiritual power, sour wine lifted to the crucified Jesus, and the sacrificial work of Christ in.
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G4374 is a broad verb for bringing, presenting, offering, or treating someone in a particular way. Its forty-seven governed forms describe gifts presented to Jesus, sick or vulnerable people brought for help, children brought to Jesus, offerings under the law, accused people brought before authorities, money offered for spiritual power, sour wine lifted to.
The BSB source-word alignment has 47 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include offer (5), offered (3), to offer (3), was brought (3), [and] presented (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 2:11. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (20), Matthew (15), Luke (4), Acts (3).
G4374 is a broad verb for bringing, presenting, offering, or treating someone in a particular way. Its forty-seven governed forms describe gifts presented to Jesus, sick or vulnerable people brought for help, children brought to Jesus, offerings under the law, accused people brought before authorities, money offered for spiritual power, sour wine lifted to the crucified Jesus, and the sacrificial work of Christ in Hebrews. The object, recipient, purpose, and narrative evaluation determine the action's meaning.
Hebrews concentrates the verb around priests, gifts, sacrifices, Christ offering himself through the eternal Spirit, the once-for-all offering, and examples of faith. The repeated comparison magnifies Christ's sufficient work; it must not be turned into contempt for Jewish people, caricature of Israel's worship, or a new system in which money, suffering, service, or obedience purchases forgiveness. John 16:2 likewise warns that killers may imagine they offer service to God. Religious vocabulary and zeal do not sanctify violence.
Other passages keep offering concrete. People bring children and sick persons, a worshiper reconciles before presenting a gift, Simon offers money for power, and officials receive accused persons. These settings require consent, child and disability safeguarding, financial integrity, medical care, evidence, and due process. Hebrews 12's language of God's fatherly treatment cannot authorize human abuse or make every illness and trauma a punishment. Christian offering remains answerable to Christ's completed work, neighbor love, truthful stewardship, and protection of vulnerable people.
Forty-seven governed forms describe bringing people and objects, presenting gifts or accusations, offering sacrifice or service, and being treated as children.
He offered them money
The attempted transaction exposes a corrupt approach to spiritual authority.
Offered Himself unblemished to God
Christ's self-offering grounds cleansing and service in his work rather than human purchase.
He had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins
The seated priest marks the sufficiency of the once-for-all offering.
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Greek word. to bring to
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 48 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
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Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
How this verb appears across 47 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
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προσφέρω is built from these roots:
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G4374 asks more than whether something is offered. Matthew shows gifts, people in need, children, debtors, and reconciliation; Acts shows corrupt money and legal or ritual presentation; John shows murderous zeal claiming service to God; Hebrews shows Christ's sufficient self-offering. The same verb can therefore describe care, worship, process, corruption, or violence.
Christian discernment asks what is being brought, who benefits, who bears the cost, whether consent and truth are present, and how the passage evaluates the act. No ministry may sell spiritual power, demand silence as sacrifice, make survivors fund their own harm, or turn Christ's cross into leverage. Faithful gifts are free, transparent, proportionate, lawful, and subordinate to grace.
Heb.9.14
Twenty-six morphology labels account for the forty-seven forms. Active and passive forms describe people bringing, objects being presented, and offerings made; infinitives and participles place these actions inside larger arguments. Aspect and voice do not make an act sacrificial, voluntary, acceptable, or just. The object, recipient, clause, and narrative assessment supply those distinctions.
Greek Old Testament offering language supplies important background for Hebrews, but the letter's own argument governs its use. Israel's sacrifices, priesthood, covenant, and prophetic calls for justice must not be detached from their contexts or used to vilify Jewish people.