What does προτρέπομαι (protrépomai) mean in the Bible?
προτρέπομαι (protrépomai) is a Greek word meaning "to encourage".
Greek · G4389
προτρέπομαι
To encourage
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προτρέπομαι G4389
Pronunciation protrépomai
What does προτρέπομαι (protrépomai) mean in the Bible?
προτρέπομαι (protrépomai) is a Greek word meaning "to encourage".
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How does the BSB render G4389?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include encouraged [him] (1).
Where does προτρέπομαι (protrépomai) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 18:27. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It encouraged [him] 1× Acts 18:27
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 18:27
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Acts 1
Source forms
προτρεψάμενοι 1x protrepsamenoi Acts 18:27
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x Acts 18:27
Evidence Summary
Greek word. to encourage
Strong's G4389
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
to encourage
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
to urge forwards, exhort, persuade. Mid., in same sense (as also in cl.): Act.18:27.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 18:27 Verb Aorist Middle Participle Nominative Plural Masculine
προτρεψάμενοι protreyamenoi
I encourage, exhort
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.
Grammatical Forms
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 1 Aligned forms 1 Tenses Aorist Voices Middle
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Tenses
Voices
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 1×
Aorist Middle Acts 18:27 1×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist 1
Voice
middle 1
Mood
participle 1
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Word Origins
προτρέπομαι is built from these roots:
τροπή G5157
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain