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”