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  #4339 προσήλυτος proselutos {pros-ay'-loo-tos}

 from the alternate of G4334; TDNT - 6:727,943; adj

—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) a newcomer
    1a) a stranger, alien
 2) a proselyte
    2a) one who has come over from a Gentile religion to Judaism

 The Rabbis distinguished two classes of proselytes, proselytes of
 righteousness, who received circumcision and bound themselves to keep
 the whole of the Mosaic law and to comply with all the requirements
 of Judaism, and proselytes of the gate, who dwelt among the Jews, and
 although uncircumcised observed certain specific laws, esp. the
 seven precepts of Noah, i.e. against the seven chief sins, idolatry,
 blasphemy against God, homicide, unchastity, theft or plundering,
 rebellion against rulers and the use of "flesh with the blood thereof".

—Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)

From the alternate of G4334; an arriver from a foreign region, that is, (specifically) an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte"):—proselyte.