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Strong's #4364 - προσποιέομαι
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- to take or claim a thing to one's self
- to conform one's self to a thing, or rather to affect to one's self
- to pretend
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προσποιεομαι
Middle voice from G4314 and G4160
προσποιέω: middle, present participle προσποιούμενος (see below); imperfect 3 person singular προσεποιεῖτο (Luke 24:28, for which L text T Tr WH give the 1 aorist προσεποιήσατο); in prose writings from Herodotus down; to add to (cf. German hinzumachen); middle
1. to take or claim (a thing) to oneself.
2. to conform oneself to a thing, or rather to affect to oneself; therefore to pretend, followed by an infinitive (A. V. made as though he would etc.), Luke 24:28; κατέγραφεν εἰς τήν γῆν μή προσποιούμενος, John 8:6 according to manuscripts E G H K etc. (cf. Matthaei (1803 edition) at the passage). (So in Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, others; Diodorus 15, 46; Philo in Flac. § 6; (in § 12 followed by participle; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 1); Aelian v. h. 8, 5; Plutarch, Timol. 5; (Test xii. Patr., test. Jos. § 3).)
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προσ -ποιέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX: 1 Samuel 21:13 (14) (H1984 hithpo.), Job 19:14, (Sir 34:30 (Sirach 31:30)), Da LXX Su 1:11 *;]
to make over to, add or attach to. Mid., to take to oneself, claim; hence, to pretend; c. inf. (cf. Xen., Anab., iv, 3, 20), to make as if: Luke 24:28.†
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";a rod"; : P Tebt I. 44.20 (B.C. 114) ἔδωκεν πληγὰς πλείους ἧι [ε ]ἶχεν ῥάβδωι, ";gave me many blows with the rod he was carrying"; cf. P Lond 44.12 (B.C. 161) (= I. p. 34, UPZ i. p. 140), P Grenf I. 38.12 (ii/i B.C.). For a reminiscence of Psalms 2:9 (cf. Revelation 2:27 al. ) see the magical P Osl I. 1.108 (iv/B.C.) κατέχων ῥάβδον σιδηρᾶν, with the editor’s note, and for a similar reminiscence of Exodus 14:16 see the leaden tablet from Hadrumetum, Wünsch AF 5.10 (iii/A.D.) (= Audollent, p. 374) ὁρκίζω σε τὸν διαστήσαντα τὴν ῥάβδον ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ.
For the form ῥαύδους = ῥάβδους, cf. P Par 40.32 (B.C. 158), 41.25 (B.C. 158–7) (= UPZ, i. pp. 148, 150), and see Mayser Gr. p. 115.
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