UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: προσκολλάομαι may very well differ from κολλάομαι[a] by suggesting a more permanent association, with focus upon reciprocal relations.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: προσκολλάομαι

Sense 1: to join, to join oneself to, to become a part of

Semantic entry: 34.22

Semantic domains: Association

Subdomains: Join, Begin To Associate

Definition: to begin an association with someone, whether temporary or permanent{N:001}

Notes: Though the Greek text of RV ACT 8:29 · LV ACT 8:29 · Read together ACT 8:29 says literally ‘join this carriage,’ in reality, of course, the association is not directly with the carriage, but with the man riding in the carriage. It is therefore necessary in a number of languages to translate κολλήθητι τῷ ἅρματι τούτῳ as ‘join the man riding in this carriage.’

MAT 19:5: RV MAT 19:5 · LV MAT 19:5 · Read together MAT 19:5

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OET-RV MAT 19:5

5 And then how he said, ‘A man will leave his parents and be joined together with his wife, and then the two of them will be a single body’?

OET-LV MAT 19:5

5 And he _said:
On _account of _this a_man will _be _leaving his father and his mother, and will _be _being _joined _together with _the wife of _him, and the two will _be into one flesh?

LUK 15:15: RV LUK 15:15 · LV LUK 15:15 · Read together LUK 15:15

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OET-RV LUK 15:15

15 so he went and signed up to work for one of the local farmers who assigned him to feed the pigs out in the fields.

OET-LV LUK 15:15

15 And having _been _gone, he _was _joined _together to _one of _the citizens of_ the that _country, and he _sent him into the fields of _him to _be _feeding pigs.

All 9 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 19:5 · LV MAT 19:5 · Read together MAT 19:5

LUK: RV LUK 15:15 · LV LUK 15:15 · Read together LUK 15:15

ACT: RV ACT 5:13 · RV ACT 8:29 · RV ACT 9:26 · RV ACT 10:28 · RV ACT 17:34 · LV ACT 5:13 · LV ACT 8:29 · LV ACT 9:26 · LV ACT 10:28 · LV ACT 17:34 · Read together ACT 5:13 · Read together ACT 8:29 · Read together ACT 9:26 · Read together ACT 10:28 · Read together ACT 17:34

CO1: RV CO1 6:16–17 · LV CO1 6:16–17 · Read together CO1 6:16–17

Sense 2: to cling to, to stick to

Semantic entry: 18.21

Semantic domains: Attachment

Subdomains: Fasten, Stick To

Definition: to stick or cling to something

LUK 10:11: RV LUK 10:11 · LV LUK 10:11 · Read together LUK 10:11

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OET-RV LUK 10:11

11 ‘We’re wiping off even the dust from your place that stuck to our footwear, however you all need to know anyway that God’s kingdom is near.’

OET-LV LUK 10:11

11 We _are _wiping _off to _you _all even the dust which having _been _joined _together to the feet to _us out _of the city of _you _all, however be _knowing this that the kingdom of_ the _god has _neared.

ROM 12:9: RV ROM 12:9 · LV ROM 12:9 · Read together ROM 12:9

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OET-RV ROM 12:9

9 Your love is to be free from hypocrisy. Deplore evil, and be united in doing good.

OET-LV ROM 12:9

9 Let _your love be unhypocritical.
Abhoring the evil, being _joined _together to_ the _good,

Sense 3: to increase greatly, to reach to high heaven

Semantic entry: 59.66

Semantic domains: Quantity

Subdomains: Increase, Decrease

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to cling to heaven) to increase enormously the number of something, with the implication of reaching the attention of God

Collocations: κολλάομαι … ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ

REV 18:5: RV REV 18:5 · LV REV 18:5 · Read together REV 18:5

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OET-RV REV 18:5

5 because her pile of sins has reached up to heaven,
⇔ so God has noticed her wickedness.

OET-LV REV 18:5

5 because were _joined _together of _her the sins until the heaven, and remembered the god the wrongs of _her.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κολλάω

Form 1

Sense 1: to join, to join oneself to, to become a part of

Sense 2: to cling to, to stick to

Sense 3: to increase greatly, to reach to high heaven