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Lexicon :: Strong's G4253 - pro

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πρό
Transliteration
pro (Key)
Pronunciation
pro
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Part of Speech
preposition
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary preposition
mGNT
47x in 1 unique form(s) TR
48x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
189x in 1 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 6:683,935

Strong’s Definitions

πρό pró, pro; a primary preposition; "fore", i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:—above, ago, before, or ever.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's G4253 in the following manner: before (44x), above (2x), above ... ago (1x), or ever (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's G4253 in the following manner: before (44x), above (2x), above ... ago (1x), or ever (1x).

  1. before

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρό pró, pro; a primary preposition; "fore", i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:—above, ago, before, or ever.
STRONGS G4253:
πρό, a preposition followed by the genitive (Latin pro) (from Homer down), the Sept. chiefly for לִפְנֵי, before; used
a. of place: πρό τῶν θυρῶν, τῆς θύρας, etc., Acts 5:23 R G; Acts 12:6,14; 14:13; James 5:9; by a Hebraism, πρό προσώπου with the genitive of a person before (the face of) one (who is following) (Buttmann, 319 (274)): Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; Luke 7:27; Luke 9:52; Luke 10:1 (Malachi 3:1; Zechariah 14:20; Deuteronomy 3:18).
b. of Time: πρό τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, Acts 5:36; Acts 21:38; (πρό τοῦ πάσχα, John 11:55); according to a later Greek idiom, πρό ἕξ ἡμερῶν τοῦ πάσχα, properly, before six days reckoning from the Passover, which is equivalent to ἕξ ἡμέρας πρό τοῦ πάσχα, on the sixth day before the Passover, John 12:1 (πρό δύο ἐτῶν τοῦ σεισμοῦ, Amos 1:1; πρό μιᾶς ἡμέρας τῆς Μαρδοχαϊκῆς ἡμέρας, 2 Macc. 15:36; examples from secular writings are cited by Winers Grammar, 557 (518); (cf. Buttmann, § 131, 11); from ecclesiastical writings by Hilgenfeld, Die Evangelien etc., pp. 298, 302; also his Paschastreit der alten Kirche, p. 221f; (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word πρό, 1 and 2)); (πρό τῆς ἑορτῆς, John 13:1); πρό καιροῦ, Matthew 8:29; 1 Corinthians 4:5; τῶν αἰώνων, 1 Corinthians 2:7; παντός τοῦ αἰῶνος, Jude 1:25 L T Tr WH; ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων, (fourteen years ago), 2 Corinthians 12:2; add, 2 Timothy 1:9; 2 Timothy 4:21; Titus 1:2; τοῦ ἀρίστου, Luke 11:38; κατακλυσμοῦ, Matthew 24:38; πρό τῆς μεταθέσεως, Hebrews 11:5; πρό καταβολῆς κόσμου, John 17:24; Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:20; πρό πάντων, prior to all created things, Colossians 1:17; (πρό τούτων πάντων (Rev. ἁπάντων), Luke 21:12); by a Hebraism, πρό προσώπου with the genitive of a thing is used of time for the simple πρό (Winers Grammar, § 65, 4b.; (Buttmann, 319 (274))), Acts 13:24 ((literally, before the face of his entering in)). πρό with the genitive of a person: John 5:7; John 10:8 (not Tdf.); Romans 16:7; οἱ πρό τίνος, those that existed before one, Matthew 5:12; with a predicate nominative added, Galatians 1:17. πρό with the genitive of an infinitive that has the article, Latin ante quam (before, before that) followed by a finite verb (Buttmann, § 140, 11; Winer's Grammar, 329 (309)): Matthew 6:8; Luke 2:21; Luke 22:15; John 1:48 (49); John 13:19; 17:5; Acts 23:15; Galatians 2:12; Galatians 3:23.
c. of superiority or pre-eminence (Winer's Grammar, 372 (349)): πρό πάντων, above all things, James 5:12; 1 Peter 4:8.
d. In Composition, πρό marks
α. place: προαύλιον; motion forward (Latin porro), προβαίνω, προβάλλω, etc.; before another who follows, in advance, προάγω, πρόδρομος, προπέρμπω, προτρέχω, etc.; in public view, openly, πρόδηλος, πρόκειμαι.
β. time: before this, previously, προαμαρτάνω; in reference to the time of an occurrence, beforehand, in advance, προβλέπω, προγινώσκω, προθέσμιος, πρωρίζω, etc.
γ. superiority or preference: προαιρέομαι. (Cf. Herm. ad Vig., p. 658.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
3:18
Amos
1:1
Zechariah
14:20
Malachi
3:1
Matthew
5:12; 6:8; 8:29; 11:10; 24:38
Mark
1:2
Luke
1:76; 2:21; 7:27; 9:52; 10:1; 11:38; 21:12; 22:15
John
1:48; 5:7; 10:8; 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 13:19; 17:5; 17:24
Acts
5:23; 5:36; 12:6; 12:14; 13:24; 14:13; 21:38; 23:15
Romans
16:7
1 Corinthians
2:7; 4:5
2 Corinthians
12:2
Galatians
1:17; 2:12; 3:23
Ephesians
1:4
Colossians
1:17
2 Timothy
1:9; 4:21
Titus
1:2
Hebrews
11:5
James
5:9; 5:12
1 Peter
1:20; 4:8
Jude
1:25

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4253 matches the Greek πρό (pro),
which occurs 189 times in 171 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 2:5–Deu 6:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the [fn]valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;

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And before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, was coming out with her jar on her shoulder.

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“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah was coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:7 - ‘Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat and bless you in the presence of Yahweh before my death.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:10 - “Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Then Isaac [fn]trembled exceedingly violently and said, “Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came and blessed him? Indeed, he shall be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:31 -

Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king of the sons of Israel reigned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 -

And they saw him from a distance, and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.

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Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of [fn]On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - And Israel said, “It is enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “So now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they [fn]sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

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Then Moses said to Yahweh, “Please, Lord, I have never been a man of words, neither [fn]recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your slave; for I am one with a [fn]hard mouth and a [fn]hard tongue.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - So the people took up their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - “And it will be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:16 - “So it will be as a sign on your hand and as [fn]phylacteries between your eyes, for with a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - “If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it puts a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - “Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - “If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun sets,

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“Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to keep you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - “But now go, guide the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I [fn]punish, I will [fn]punish them for their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - “And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:6 - Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and [fn]truth;

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“[fn]Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - “For I will dispossess nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before Yahweh your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with a sworn oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - “The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 -

‘So do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am Yahweh your God.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they had gone up into the Negev and [fn]came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the [fn]descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - “Do not go up, for Yahweh is not among you, so that you are not [fn]defeated before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:17 - who will go out [fn]and come in before them, and who will lead them out and [fn]bring them in, so that the congregation of Yahweh will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their carved stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - ‘See, Yahweh your God has given over the land before you; go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:30 - ‘Yahweh your God, who goes before you, will Himself fight on your behalf, [fn]just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but Yahweh destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:31 - “And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land [fn]over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:33 - “But Yahweh our God gave him [fn]over to us, and we struck him down with his sons and all his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 -

“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it; all you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:28 - ‘But command Joshua and strengthen him and encourage him, for he shall go across [fn]at the head of this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that a manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor [fn]without premeditation, [fn]not hating him previously; so he shall flee to one of these cities that he might live:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:7 -

‘You shall have no other gods [fn]before Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:8 - “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as [fn]phylacteries between your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - by driving out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

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