The corpus record

εἰσκᾰλέω

eiskaleo

call in, invite to oneʼs house, call

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Where it lives

Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

εἰσκᾰλέω · eiskaleō — LSJ

call in, invite to oneʼs house, call, have called in, summon

call in, μάρτυρας Ar. V. 936, D. 28.5; τινὰ πρὸς αὑτόν X. Cyr. 8.3.1, cf. Theoc. 2.132, PPetr. 2p.31 (iii B.C.), etc.:—Med., invite to oneʼs house, Act. Ap. 10.23; also, call or have called in, Plb. 21.22.2; [ἰητρόν] Hp. Prog. 1; summon, PPetr. 3p.62 (iii A. D.).

In the wild

εἰσκαλοῦσι · eiskalousi Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..67 (DIORISIS sentence 798)
εἰσκαλεσάμενος · eiskalesamenos New Testament, Acts 10.23 (DIORISIS sentence 346)
εἰσκαλέσας · eiskalesas Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4303)
εἰσκαλεῖν · eiskalein Xenophon, Economics 4.15 (DIORISIS sentence 211)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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