Quick Definition
προσεάω v. I permit one to approach
Strong's Definition
from 4314 and 1439; to permit further progress
KJV Usage: suffer
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἐάω
13.139 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Happen
to allow to go farther to allow to go beyond what is expected
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προσ-εάω, -ῶ ; to permit one to approach or arrive: Acts xxvii. 7 [R. V. txt. to suffer further; (cf. πρός, IV. 2; Smith, Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, 3d ed., p. 78; Hackett ad loe.)]. Not found elsewhere.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προσεάω proseaō 1x
to permit an approach, Acts 27:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† προσ-εάω, -ῶ, to permit further: Ac 27:7.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προσεάω. We chronicle this verb from Ac 277, where Ramsay renders ‘‘as the wind did not permit our straight course onwards,” if only for the sake of drawing attention to the fact that it is one of the few words left in the NT of which Grimm’s dictum holds good, ‘* Not found elsewhere.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
προσεάω (proseaō) — to permit. προσεάω, suffer to go further, μὴ -εῶντος ἡμᾶς τοῦ ἀνέμου [NT]
2. permit as well, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
