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What Does “Proselyte” Mean in the Bible?

A person who was not born Jewish and became Jewish in order to worship the God of Israel.

Where it appears in the Bible

Acts 2:11; Acts 6:5

What the Bible says

Acts 2:11

Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

Acts 6:5

And the saying was liked by all the multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Proselyte”

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