STRONGS G4364:
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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