Quick Definition
I permit one to approach
Strong's Definition
to permit further progress
Derivation: from G4314 (πρός) and G1439 (ἐάω);
KJV Usage: suffer
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προσεάω, προσέω; to permit one to approach or arrive: Act_27:7 (R. V. text to suffer further; (cf. πρός, IV. 2; Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, 3rd edition, p. 78; Hackett at the passage)). Not found elsewhere.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προσεάω proseaō 1x
to permit an approach, Act_27:7
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† προσ -εάω , -ῶ ,
to permit further: Act_27:7 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προσεάω [page 547]
We chronicle this verb from Act_27:7 , where Ramsay render a the wind did not permit our straight course onward , if only for the sake of drawing attention to the fact that it is one of the few words left in the NT of which Grimm s dictum holds good, Not found elsewhere.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προσεάω fut. -εάσω "to suffer to go further", τινά NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
to suffer to go further , τινά (New Testament) (ML)
