noun · masculine
prosaitos
Greekπροσαίτης (prosaitēs)
Strong’sG4319
a beggar
stem prosait-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† προσαίτης, -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4319 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | prosaitos2×προσαίτης | prosaitois |
| object accusative | prosaiton | prosaitoin |
| direct address vocative | prosaitor | prosaitoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | prosaitou | prosaitoiu |
| to, for dative | prosaito | prosaitoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
prosaito is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Where it appears
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
prosaitos“beggar”subjectnominative singular2×
Mark 10:46“beggar”Kai erchelō eis Ierichō. kai ekporeuerōtou autou apo Ierichō kai toiu mathētoiu autou kai ochlou hikanou tos huios Timaiou Bartimaios tuflos prosaitos kathete para tan hodan.Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
John 9:8“beggar”tois oun geitōnois kai tois theōrarōtois auton tem proterem hoti prosaitos ate legale; Ouk houtos atō tos katherōtos kai prosaitarōtos?At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”