πρόσκλησις, προσκλησεως, ἡ, 1. a judicial summons: Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes. 2. an invitation: μηδέν ποιῶν κατά πρόσκλησιν, 1Ti_5:21 L Tr marginal reading; this reading, unless (as can hardly be doubted) it be due to itacism, must be translated by invitation, i. e. the invitation or summons of those who seek to draw you over to their side (see quotations in Tdf. at the passage Cf. πρόσκλισις.) STRONGS NT 4346: πρόσκλισιςπρόσκλισις, προσκλισεως, ἡ, an inclination or proclivity of mind, a jollying the party of one (Polybius (Diodorus)); partiality: κατά πρόσκλισιν, led by partiality (Vulg.in (aliam on) alteram partem declinando), 1Ti_5:21 (R G T WH Tr text); κατά προσκλισεις, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 21, 7 [ET]; δίχα προσκλισεως ἀνθρωπίνης, ibid. 50, 2 [ET], cf. 47, 3f [ET]. (Cf. πρόσκλησις.)

πρόσκλισις prosklisis 1x pr. a leaning upon or towards a thing; met. a leaning towards any one, inclination of mind towards, partiality, 1Ti_5:21

*† πρόσ -κλισις , -εως , ἡ , ( <προσκλίνω ), inclination partiality: 1Ti_5:21 .† πρόσ -κλησις , -εως , ἡ , LTr ., mg ., for πρόσκλισις , q.v.

πρόσκλησις / πρόσκλισις [page 549] πρόσκλησις For this word = judicial summons, invitation, which is read in 1Ti_5:21 AD al. , we may cite BGU IV. 1131 54 (B.C. 13) ̣μ̣η ̣π̣ρ [οσφέρειν ] πρόσκλη (σιν ) ἢ διαστολ (ήν ). πρόσκλισις Like its verb, πρόσκλισις is a NT ἅπ . εἱρ ., 1Ti_5:21 , where it has the meaning of partiality. It is found ter in Clem. R. (21, 47, 50).

πρόσκλισις [Etym: from προσκλί_νω] πρόσκλι^σις, εως, "inclination, proclivity", Polyb. ; κατὰ πρόσκλισιν with "partiality", NTest.

πρόσ-κλισις, -εως, ἡ (προσκλίνω), inclination partiality: 1Ti.5:21.† (AS)