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Strong's #4332 - προσεδρεύω
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- to sit near
- to attend assiduously
- to be in attendance upon, not to quit one's side
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προσεδρ-εύω, sit near, wait or watch beside, πυρᾷ E. Or. 403; π. τινί to be always at his side, keep watch on him, D. 34.26; τοῖς πράγμασι, τοῖς καιροῖς, Id. 1.18, Plb. 38.13.9; [ τοῖς ἐφήβοις] προσκαρτερῶν ἐπιμελῶς καὶ -εύων, of a κοσμητής, IG 22.1028.84; π. τῷ θεῷ wait upon God, J. AJ 3.4.1; attend to, τοῖς τῆς Ἀσίας πράγμασιν AJA 18.327 (Sardis, i B.C. ), cf. CIG 2715.18 ( Stratonicea ); τῇ θεραπείᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ J. Revelation 1:7; τοῖς ὑπομνήμασι Plb. 12.26d . 5, cf. Phld. Rh. 2.61 S., al.: abs., Arist. HA 568b15, Plb. 11.4.2; watch the rise of the Nile, Sammelb. 6597 (iii A.D.), al.; persist in, ταῖς φιλοπονίαις Arist. Pol. 1338b25; τῷ πόθῳ Alex. 234; apply oneself, λίαν Arist. Pol. 1337b16; πρὸς ἴδιον to one's own affairs, ib. 1263a29; εἰς τὰ μαθήματα PSI 1.94.8 (ii A.D.) .
2. besiege, ταῖς Συρακούσαις Plb. 8.7.11 .
3. wait, προσέδρευσα ἐφ' ἡμέρας δύο ἐκδεχόμενός σε BGU 892.5 (ii A.D.); esp. attend at a law-court, παρεῖναι καὶ π. τῷ βήματι PAmh. 2.81.9 (iii A.D.); attend regularly, serve, as clerk of the court, ib. 82.3 (iii/iv A.D.), POxy. 59.10 (iii A.D.) .
4. to be in seruice, serve, πρὸς τῷ διδασκαλείῳ (as a menial), D. 18.258; of an apprentice, π. τῷ διδασκάλῳ POxy. 725.10 (ii A.D.); of a servant, παραμένειν . . καὶ π . PStrassb. 40.31 (vi A.D.) .
προσεδρεύω; (πρόσεδρος sitting near (cf. πρός, IV. 3));
1. properly, to sit near ((Euripides, others)).
2. to attend assiduously: τῷ θυσιαστηρίῳ (see παρεδρεύω), 1 Corinthians 9:13 Rec.; Protevangelium Jacobi, 23, 1 (where we also find the variant παρεδρεύω); τῇ θεραπεία τοῦ Θεοῦ, Josephus, contra Apion 1, 7, 1; ταῖς φιλοπονιαις, Aristotle, pol. 8, 4, 4, p. 1338b, 25; τοῖς πραγμασι, Demosthenes, pp. 14,15 (i. e. Olynth. 1, 18); with the dative of person to be in attendance upon, not to quit one's side, Josephus, contra Apion 1, 9, 1; (cf. Demosthenes, 914, 28).
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** προσεδρεύω
(< πρόσεδρος , sitting near),
[in LXX: 1 Maccabees 11:40*;]
1. to sit near.
2. to attend regularly: c. dat., 1 Corinthians 9:13, Rec. (vs. παρεδρεύω ).†
παρ -εδρεύω ,
[in LXX: Proverbs 1:21; Proverbs 8:3*;]
to sit constantly beside, attend constantly (cf. MM, xix): τ . θυσιαστηρίω , 1 Corinthians 9:13.†
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literally ";beggary,"; is not found in any Saying of our Lord recorded in the Gospels, but occurs in the fourth of the Oxyrhynchus Sayings, P Oxy I. 1 recto.1 : cf. White Sayings, p. 34 f. In P Gen I. 14.23 (Byz.), a Christian begging-letter full of Biblical citations, we have συγχώρησόν μοι τῷ ἐν πτωχεία. The word denotes ";poor-relief"; in Justinian’s Code, 1. 3. 41. 23.
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