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Lexicon :: Strong's G4387 - proteros

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πρότερος
Transliteration
proteros (Key)
Pronunciation
prot'-er-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Comparative of πρό (G4253)
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Strong’s Definitions

πρότερος próteros, prot'-er-os; comparative of G4253; prior or previous:—former.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G4387 in the following manner: former (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G4387 in the following manner: former (1x).

  1. before, prior

    1. of time, previous, former

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρότερος próteros, prot'-er-os; comparative of G4253; prior or previous:—former.
STRONGS G4387:
πρότερος, πρότερα, πρότερον (comparitive of πρό) (from Homer down), before, prior; of time, former: ἡ πρότερα ἀναστροφή, Ephesians 4:22. Neuter adverbially, before (something else is or was done): John 7:51 R G; 2 Corinthians 1:15; opposed to ἔπειτα, Hebrews 7:27; before, i. e. aforetime, in time past: John 7:50 (L Tr WH); Hebrews 4:6; and R G in 1 Timothy 1:13; also τό πρότερον (contrasting rite past with the present (cf. πάλαι, 1 at the end)), John 6:62; John 9:8, and L T Tr WH in 1 Timothy 1:13 (1 Macc. 3:46 1 Macc. 5:1 1 Macc. 11:34, 39; Deuteronomy 2:12; Joshua 11:10; Herodotus 7, 75; Xenophon, Plato); equivalent to our the first time, Galatians 4:13 (on which cf. Meyer); it is placed between the article and the noun, as αἱ πρότερον ἡμέραι, the former days, Hebrews 10:32; αἱ πρότερον ἐπιθυμίαι, the lusts which you formerly indulged, 1 Peter 1:14.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
2:12
Joshua
11:10
John
6:62; 7:50; 7:51; 9:8
2 Corinthians
1:15
Galatians
4:13
Ephesians
4:22
1 Timothy
1:13; 1:13
Hebrews
4:6; 7:27; 10:32
1 Peter
1:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4387 matches the Greek πρότερος (proteros),
which occurs 33 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:28 - And it happened, while she was giving birth, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - within three more days Pharaoh will [fn]lift up your head and restore you to your [fn]office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt; they were very heavy. There had never been so many [fn]locusts, nor would there be so many [fn]again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - “And I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - ‘But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - and shall dedicate to Yahweh the days of his [fn]Nazirite vow and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his Nazirite vow was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 -

Thus they set out from the mount of Yahweh three days’ journey, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh journeying in front of them for the [fn]three days, to spy out a resting place for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, for You, O Yahweh, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 -

“Then all of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you on your way, to spy out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - (The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 -

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created [fn]man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - “Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross before your brothers in battle array, all your valiant warriors, and shall help them

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 -

So it happened that when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - ‘Then I sent the hornet before you, and it [fn]drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - “For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - Now the acts of King David, from first to last, behold, they are written in the chronicles of Samuel the seer, in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet and in the chronicles of Gad the seer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 -

Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”

For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 -

Let them bring it forth and declare to us what is going to take place;

As for the former events, declare what they were,

That we may establish our heart on them and know their outcome.

Or cause us to hear of what is coming;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 -

“Remember the former things long past,

For I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is no one like Me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 -

“I declared the former things long ago,

And they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to be heard.

Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 -

“They are created now and not long ago;

And before today you have not heard them,

Lest you say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 -

But you will not go out in haste,

Nor will you go as those who flee;

For Yahweh will go before you,

And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 -

“For behold, I am creating a new heavens and a new earth;

And the former things will not be remembered or come upon the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - “The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth speaking great boasts and [fn]which was larger in appearance than its associates.
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