προσήλυτος, προσηλύτου, ὁ (from προσέρχομαι, perfect προσελήλυθα, cf. Buttmann, 74 (64); (Winer's Grammar, 24, 26, 97 (92))); 1. a newcomer (Latinadvena; cf. πρός, IV. 1); a stranger, alien (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1, 834; the Sept. often for βΕΜψ (cf. Philo de monarch. 1, 7 at the beginning)). 2. a proselyte, i. e. one who has come over from a Gentile religion to Judaism (Luther, Judengenosse): Mat_23:15; Act_2:11 (); . The rabbis distinguish two classes of proselytes, viz. δΗφΖΜγΖχ βΕΜψΕι proselytes of righteousness, who received circumcision and bound themselves to keep the whole Mosaic law and to comply with all the requirements of Judaism, and δΗωΗΜΡςΗψ βΕΜψΕι, proselytes of the gate (a name derived apparently from Exo_20:10; Deu_5:14; (); (), ()), who dwelt among the Jews, and although uncircumcised observed certain specified laws, especially the seven precepts of Noah (as the rabbis called them), i. e. against the seven chief sins, idolatry, blasphemy against God, homicide, unchastity, theft or plundering, rebellion against rulers, and the use of flesh with the blood thereof. (Many hold that this distinction of proselytes into classes is purely theoretical, and was of no practical moment in Christ's day; cf. Lardner, Works, 11:306-324; cf. vi. 522-533; Schürer in Riehm as below.) Cf. Leyrer in Herzog xii., p. 237ff (rewritten in edition 2 by Delitzsch (xii. 293ff)); Steiner in Schenkel iv., 629f; (BB. DD.); Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch., p. 644 ((whose views are somewhat modified, especially as respects classes of proselytes, in his 2te Aufl. § 31 V., p. 567, and his article 'Proselyten' in Riehm, p. 1240f)) and the books he refers to.

προσήλυτος prosēlytos 4x pr. a newcomer, a stranger; in NT a proselyte, convert from paganism to Judaism, Mat_23:15 ; Act_2:11 ; Act_6:5 ; Act_13:43

† προσήλυτος , -ον ( < προοελαύνω ), [in LXX for H1616 ;] 1. one who has arrived , a stranger . 2. Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte ( v. DB , s.v. ): Mat_23:15 , Act_2:10 ; Act_6:5 ; Act_13:43 .†

προσήλυτος [page 548] a proselyte, lit. one that has come to Judaism from some Gentile religion, occurs quater in the NT, but is not found in classical literature, unless in the Scholium on Apoll. Rhod. i. 834 καθάπερ μετοίκους διατρίβειν καὶ προσηλύτους (cited by Hort 1 Pet. p. 154). A Cyrenaic inscr., Preisigke 1742, records some interesting names Ἰωσῆς Κρίσπου . . . Λύκα Γαίου . . Σάρρα προσήλυτος .

προσήλυτος προσήλυ^τος, ον, [Etym: προσελήλυθα] "one that has arrived at" a place, "a sojourner", Lat. advena: one who has come over to Judaism, a convert, proselyte, NTest.

προσήλυτος, -ον (προοελαύνω), [in LXX for גֵּר ;] __1. one who has arrived, a stranger. __2. Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte (see DB, see word): Mat.23:15, Act.2:10 6:5 13:43.† (AS)