προστίθημι: imperfect 3 person singular 
προσετίθει (
Acts 2:47); 1 aorist 
προσέθηκα; 2 aorist 
προσεθην, imperative 
πρόσθες (
Luke 17:5), infinitive 
προσθεῖναι, participle 
προσθείς; passive, imperfect 3 person plural 
προσετίθεντο; 1 aorist 
προσετέθην; 1 future 
προστεθήσομαι; 2 aorist middle 
προσεθεμην; from 
Homer, Odyssey 9, 305 down; the 
Sept. very often for 
יָסַף, also for 
אָסַף, 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: 
τινα τῇ ἐκκλησία, 
Acts 2:47 (
R G); 
τῷ κυρίῳ, 
Acts 5:14; 
Acts 11:24; namely, 
τῷ κυρίῳ, or 
τοῖς πιστεύουσιν, 
Acts 2:41; Hebraistically, 
προσετέθη πρός τούς πατέρας αὐτοῦ (
Judges 2:10; 
1 Macc. 2:69), 
he was gathered to his fathers assembled in Sheol (which is 
לְכָל־חָי מועֵד בֵּית, the house of assembly for all the living, 
Job 30:23), 
Acts 13:36 (others explain it, 
he was added to the bodies cf his ancestors, buried with them in a common tomb; but cf. Knobel on 
Genesis 25:8; (Böttcher, De inferis, p. 54ff)); equivalent to 
to add viz. to what one already possesses: 
τί, 
Luke 17:5 (
A. V. here 
increase); passive, 
Matthew 6:33; 
Luke 12:31; 
Mark 4:24; 
Hebrews 12:19 ((
μή προστεθῆναι αὐτοῖς λόγον, 
R. V. that no word more should be spoken to them)); — to what already exists: (
ὁ νόμος) 
προσετέθη, was added to (supervened upon) namely, the 
ἐπαγγελία, 
Galatians 3:19 R L T Tr WH; 
τί ἐπί τίνι, some thing to (upon) a thing (which has preceded (cf. 
ἐπί, B. 2 d.)), 
Luke 3:20; 
τί ἐπί τί, to a thing that it may thereby be increased, 
Matthew 6:27; 
Luke 12:25. In imitation of the Hebrew (
יָסַף) the middle (in the 
Sept. 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 
Genesis 4:2; 
Genesis 8:12; 
Genesis 18:29): 
προσέθετο πέμψαι (
לִשְׁלֹחַ וַיֹסֶף), he continued to send (as be had already sent), 
Luke 20:11, 
12 (equivalent to 
πάλιν ἀπέστειλεν, 
Mark 12:4); 
προσέθετο συλλαβεῖν καί Πέτρον, be besides apprehended Peter also (
A. V. he proceeded etc.), 
Acts 12:3; in the same way also the participle is used with a finite verb: 
προσθείς εἶπεν, i. e. he further spake (
A. V. he added and spake), 
Luke 19:11 (
προσθεῖσα ἔτεκεν, 
Genesis 38:5; 
προσθέμενος ἔλαβε γυναῖκα, 
Genesis 25:1); cf. 
Winers Grammar, § 54, 5; 
Buttmann, § 144, 14. 
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