Greek

To draw/persuade

ἕλκωStrong’s G1670

helkuō, helkō

Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament

In short

Helkuō, helkō is the Greek word usually translated “drew”, “shall draw” and “draw”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:44 KJV

Meaning

Usually translated “drew”, “shall draw” and “draw”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

drew 2
shall draw 1
will draw 1
to haul in 1
they dragged 1
they were dragging 1
dragging 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

John 5
Acts 2
James 1

3 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

All 8 verses, by book

John 5: 6:44 12:32 18:10 21:6 21:11
Acts 2: 16:19 21:30
James 1: 2:6

Greek dictionary

ἕλκω helkuō, helkō · to draw/persuade

ἕλκω (Hellenistic form ἑλκύω in Jhn.11:1-57. with, Act.16:19), [in LXX for מָשַׁךְ, etc. ;] to draw: with accusative of thing(s), Jhn.18:10 21:6; with accusative of person(s), before ἔξω, Act.21:30; εἰς, Act.16:19, Jas.2:6. Metaphorical, to draw, lead, impel: Jhn.6:44 12:32. (For discussion of ἕ. in Oxyrh. Log., see Deiss., LAE, 437 ff.)† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “draw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DRAW, verb transitive

preterit tense drew; participle passive drawn. [Latin It is only a dialectical spelling of drag, which see.]

To pull along; to haul; to cause to move forward by force applied in advance of the thing moved or at the fore-end, as by a rope or chain.
To pull out, as to draw a sword or dagger from its sheath; to unsheathe.
To bring by compulsion; to cause to come.“Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seat?” James 2:6
To pull up or out; to raise from any depth; as, to draw water from a well.

All definitions and other forms of “draw”

To suck; as, to draw the breasts.
To attract; to cause to move or tend towards itself; as a magnet or other attracting body is said to draw it.
To attract; to cause to turn towards itself; to engage; as, a beauty or a popular speaker draws the eyes of an assembly, or draws their attention.
To inhale; to take air into the lungs; as, there I first drew air; I draw the sultry air.
To pull or take from a spit, as a piece of meat.
To take from a cask or vat; to cause or to suffer a liquid to run out; a, to draw wine or cider.
To take a liquid form the body; to let out; as, to draw blood or water.
To take from an over; as, to draw bread.
To cause to slide; as a curtain, either in closing or unclosing; to open or unclose and discover, or to close and conceal.
To extract; as, to draw spirit from grain or juice.
To produce; to bring, as an agent or efficient cause; usually followed by a modifying word; as, piety draws down blessings; crimes draw down vengeance; vice draws on us many temporal evils; war draws after it a train of calamities.
To move gradually or slowly; to extend.
To lengthen; to extend in length.
To utter in a lingering manner; as, to draw a groan.
To run or extend, by marking or forming; as, to draw a line on paper, or a line of circumvallation.
To represent by lines drawn on a plain surface; to form a picture or image; as, to draw the figure of man; to draw the face.
To describe; to represent by words; as, the orator drew an admirable picture of human misery.
To represent in fancy; to image in the mind.
To derive; to have or receive from some source, cause or donor; as, to draw the rudiments of science from a civilized nation; to draw consolation from divine promises.
To deduce; as, to draw arguments from facts, or inferences from circumstantial evidence.
To allure; to entice; to lead by persuasion or moral influence; to excite to motion.“DRAW me; we will run after thee” Song of Solomon 1:4“Men shall arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” Acts 20:30
To lead, as a motive; to induce to move.
To induce; to persuade; to attract towards; in a very general sense.
To win; to gain; a metaphor from gaming.
To receive or take, as from a fund; as, to draw money from a bank or from stock in trade.
To bear; to produce; as, a bond or note draws interest from its date.
To extort; to force out; as, his eloquence drew tears from the audience; to draw sighs or groans.
To wrest; to distort; as, to draw the scriptures to ones fancy.
To compose; to write in due form; to form in writing; as, to draw a bill of exchange; to draw a deed or will.
To take out of a box or wheel, as tickets in a lottery.
To receive or gain by drawing; as, to draw a prize.
To extend; to stretch; as, to draw wine; to draw a piece of metal by beating, etc.
To sink into the water; or to require a certain depth of water for floating; as, a ship draws fifteen feet of water.
To bend; as, to draw the bow. Isaiah 66:19
To eviscerate; to pull out the bowels; as, to draw poultry.
To withdraw. [Not used.]
To collect; to apply to any purpose by violence.
To contract; to pull to a smaller compass; to pull back; as, to draw int he reins.
To entice, allure or inveigle; as, to draw in others to support a measure.
To draw form or away; also, to withdraw; to abstract; as, to draw off the mind from vain amusements.
To draw or take from; to cause to flow from; as, to draw off wine or cider from a vessel.
To extract by distillation.
To allure; to entice; to persuade or cause to follow.
To occasion; to invite; to bring on; to cause.
To raise, or cause to come over, as in a still.
To persuade or induce to revolt from an opposing party, and to join ones own party.
To lengthen; to stretch by force; to extend.
To beat or hammer out; to extend or spread by beating, as a metal.
To lengthen in time; to protract; to cause to continue.“Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?” Psalms 85:5
To cause to issue forth; to draw off; as liquor from a cask.
To extract, as the spirit of a substance.
To bring forth; to pump out, by questioning or address; to cause to be declared, or brought to light; as, to draw out facts from a witness.
To induce by motive; to call forth.
To detach; to separate from the main body; as, to draw out a file or part of men.
To range in battle; to array in a line.
To raise; to lift; to elevate.
To form in order of battle; to array.
To compose in due form, as a writing; to form in writing; as, to draw up a deed; to draw up a paper.

DRAW, verb intransitive

To pull; to exert strength in drawing.
To act as a weight.
To shrink; to contract into a smaller compass.
To move; to advance.
To be filled or inflated with wind, so as to press on and advance a ship in her course; as, the sails draw
To unsheathe a sword.
To use or practice the art of delineating figures; as, he draws with exactness.
To collect the matter of an ulcer or abscess; to cause to suppurate; to excite to inflammation, maturation and discharge; as, an epispastic draws well.
To retire; to move back; to withdraw.
To renounce the faith; to apostatize. Hebrews 10:22
To advance; to approach; as, the day draws on.
To gain on; to approach in pursuit; as, the ship drew on the chase.
To demand payment by an order or bill, called a draught.

DRAW, noun

The act of drawing.
The lot or chance drawn.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.