prostivqhmi prostivqhmi: imperfect 3 person singular prosetivqei (); aorist prosevqhka; 2 aorist proseqhn, imperative provsqe" (), infinitive prosqei'nai, participle prosqeiv"; passive, imperfect 3 person plural prosetivqento; 1 aorist prosetevqhn; 1 future prosteqhvsomai; 2 aorist middle proseqemhn; from Homer, Odyssey 9, 305 down; the Septuagint very often for #s'y:, also for #s'a;, etc.;1. properly, to put to.2. to add, i. e. join to, gather with any company, the number of one's followers or companions: tina th'/ ejkklhsiva, (R G); tw'/ kurivw/, ; ; namely, tw'/ kurivw/, or toi'" pisteuvousin, ; Hebraistically, prosetevqh prov" touv" patevra" aujtou' (; ), he was gathered to his fathers assembled in Sheol (which is yj;Alk;l] d[e/m tyBe, the house of assembly for all the living, ), (others explain it, he was added to the bodies cf his ancestors, buried with them in a common tomb; but cf. Knobel on ; (B?ttcher, De inferis, p. 54ff)); equivalent to to add viz. to what one already possesses: tiv, (A. V. here increase); passive, ; ; ; ((mhv prosteqh'nai aujtoi'" lovgon, R. V. that no word more should be spoken to them)); -- to what already exists: (oJ novmo") prosetevqh, was added to (supervened upon) namely, the ejpaggeliva, R L T Tr WH; tiv ejpiv tivni, some thing to (upon) a thing (which has preceded (cf. ejpiv, B. 2 d.)), ; tiv ejpiv tiv, to a thing that it may thereby be increased, ; . In imitation of the Hebrew (#s'y:) the middle (in the Septuagint the active also) followed by an infinitive signifies (to add, i. e.) to go on to do a thing, for to do further, do again (as ; ; ): prosevqeto pevmyai (j"l?v]li #s,yOw"), he continued to send (as be had already sent), , (equivalent to pavlin ajpevsteilen, ); prosevqeto sullabei'n kaiv Pevtron, be besides apprehended Peter also (A. V. he proceeded etc.), ; in the same way also the participle is used with a finite verb: prosqeiv" ei\pen, i. e. he further spake (A. V. he added and spake), (prosqei'sa e[teken, ; prosqevmeno" e[labe gunai'ka, ); cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 54, 5; Buttmann, sec. 144, 14.*