Bible word study

Prosecho (Strong’s G4337): Meaning in the Bible

Prosecho (προσέχω) is the Greek word numbered G4337 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as (figuratively) to hold the mind (3563 implied) towards, i.e. pay attention to, be cautious about, apply oneself to, adhere to. In the King James Bible it is translated (give) attend(-ance, -ance at, -ance to, unto), beware.

• Original wordπροσέχω
• Transliterationproséchō
• Pronunciationpros-ekh'-o
• Strong’s numberG4337
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G4314 and G2192;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Prosecho appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Prosecho (G4337) stands behind 25 English renderings in 24 verses across 7 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (6), Acts (6), Luke (4).

How the King James Bible renders Prosecho, by count

• beware6 of 25 (24 percent)
• heed6 of 25 (24 percent)
• to4 of 25 (16 percent)
• attendance2 of 25 (8 percent)
• give1 of 25 (4 percent)
• regard1 of 25 (4 percent)

Three places to read Prosecho

• Matthew 6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
• Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
• 1 Timothy 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Prosecho in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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