Day: September 16, 2025

The biblical term “proselyte” is an anglicization of Koine Greek: προσήλυτος, romanized: prosēlutos, as used in the Septuagint for “stranger”, i.e. a “newcomer to Israel “; [1] a “sojourner in the land”, [2] and in the Novum Testamentum Graece [3] for a first-century convert to Judaism. It is a translation of Biblical Hebrew: גר תושב or ger toshav. [3] “Proselyte” also has the …