προσήλυτος, -ov, ὁ, (fr. προσέρχομαι, pf. προσελήλυθα, cf. B. 74 (64); [W. 24. 26. 97 (92)]); 1. a newcomer (Lat. advena; cf. πρός, LV. 1]; α stranger, alien, (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1, 834; Sept. often for Ἢ [cf. Philo de monarch. 1, 7 ad init. ]}). 2. a proselyte, i.e. one who has come over from a Gentile religion to Judaism (Luther, Judengenosse): Mt. xxiii. 15; Acts ii. 11 (10); vi.5; xii. 43. The Rabbins distinguish two classes of proselytes, viz. psa proselytes of righteousness, who received circumcision and bound themselves to keep the whole Mosaic law and to comply with all the requirements of Judaism, and \pwo 3 proselytes of the gate (a name derived apparently from Ex. xx. 10; Deut. v.14; [xiv. 21]; xxiv. 16 (14), 21 (19)), who dwelt among the Jews, and although uncircumcised observed certain specified laws, esp. the seven precepts of Noah (as the Rabbins called them), i. 6. against the seven chief sins, idolatry, blasphemy against God, homicide, unchastity, theft or plundering, rebellion against rulers, and the use of “flesh with the blood thereof.” {Many hold that this distinction of proselytes into classes is purely theoretical, and was of no practical moment in Christ’s day; οἵ. Lardner, Works, xi. 306-324; ef. vi. 522-533; Schiirer in Riehm as below.] Cf. Leyrer in Herzog xii. p. 237 sqq. [rewritten in ed. 2 by Delitzsch (xii. 293 sqq.)], Steiner in Schenkel iv. 629 sq.; [BB. DD.]; Schiirer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. p. 644 [(whose views are somewhat modified, esp. as respects classes of proselytes, in his 2te Aufl. § 31 V. p. 567, and his art. ‘ Proselyten’ in Riehm p. 1240 sq.)] and the bks. he refers to.

προσήλυτος prosēlytos 4x

pr. a newcomer, a stranger; in NT a proselyte, convert from paganism to Judaism, Mt. 23:15; Acts 2:11; 6:5; 13:43*

† προσήλυτος, -ον

(< προσελαύνω), [in LXX for גֵּר;]

one who has arrived, a stranger.

Of converts to Judaism, a proselyte (v. DB, s.v.): Mt 23:15, Ac 2:10 6:5 13:43.†

προσήλυτος, “ἐᾷ proselyte,” lit. ‘one that has come to’’ Judaism from some Gentile religion, occurs gzater in the NT, but is not found in classical literature, unless in the Scholium on Apoll. Rhod. i. 834 καθάπερ μετοίκους διατρίβειν καὶ προσηλύτους (cited by Hort χ Pet. p. 154). A Cyrenaicinser., Prezsigke 1742, records some interesting names—Iwofs Κρίσπον ..» Λύκα Γαίου. . Σάρρα προσήλυτος.

προσήλυτος (prosēlutos) — proselyte. προσήλυτ-ος, ον, one that has arrived at a place, stranger, sojourner, τῷ προσελθόντι προσηλύτῳ[LXX]

II. one who has come over to Judaism, convert, proselyte, [NT+1st c.AD+]