προσφέρω
prospherō
to bring to
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What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word "προσφέρω" (prospherō) is a verb that means "to bring to." It is used in the New Testament 48 times, indicating its importance in the biblical narrative. This word can be used in various contexts, such as bringing something to a person, place, or situation. The range of usage for "προσφέρω" is quite broad, encompassing both physical and metaphorical actions. For example, it can describe bringing an offering to God (e.g., Luke 1:6), bringing a gift to someone (e.g., Acts 11:29), or bringing a message to a person (e.g., Acts 15:4). This versatility highlights the word's significance in conveying the idea of bringing something to a particular context. The significance of "προσφέρω" lies in its emphasis on the act of bringing something to a particular point or situation. It underscores the idea that the action of bringing something is not just about the object itself, but also about the context in which it is brought. This nuance is essential in understanding the biblical narrative, where the act of bringing something to a particular situation often carries significant meaning and consequences.
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Occurrences in Scripture
48 total occurrences across the text
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Matthew 4:24The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
Matthew 5:23“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Matthew 5:24leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 8:4Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
Matthew 8:16When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
Matthew 9:2Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
Matthew 9:32As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.
Matthew 12:22Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.
Matthew 14:35When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick;
Matthew 17:16So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
Matthew 18:24When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Matthew 19:13Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
Matthew 22:19Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.
Matthew 25:20He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
Mark 1:44and said to him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
Mark 2:4When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
Mark 10:13They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
Mark 10:13They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
Luke 5:14He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
Luke 18:15They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
Luke 23:14and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
Luke 23:36The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
John 19:29Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 8:18Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
Acts 21:26Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
Hebrews 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 9:25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
Hebrews 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
Hebrews 10:1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 5:1For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Hebrews 5:3Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
Hebrews 10:2Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Hebrews 8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
Hebrews 8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
Hebrews 8:4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,
Hebrews 9:7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
Hebrews 9:9This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,
Hebrews 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 10:8Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
Hebrews 10:11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,
Hebrews 10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
Hebrews 11:4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
Hebrews 11:17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
Hebrews 11:17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
Hebrews 12:7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?