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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)
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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 48 times in 48 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29 - And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to torment us?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10 - this is he of whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:38 - For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:2 - as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:76

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:76 - And *thou*, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27 - This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52 - And he sent messengers before his face. And having gone they entered into a village of the Samaritans that they might make ready for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:1 - Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38 - But the Pharisee seeing it wondered that he had not first washed before dinner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:48 - Nathanael says to him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:19 - I tell you it now before it happens, that when it happens, ye may believe that I am he.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - and now glorify *me*, *thou* Father, along with thyself, with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - Father, as to those whom thou hast given me, I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:23 - saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened them, within we found no one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36 - for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14 - and having recognised the voice of Peter, through joy did not open the entry, but running in, reported that Peter was standing before the entry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24 - John having proclaimed before the face of his entry among the people the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done sacrifice along with the crowds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - Thou art not then that Egyptian who before these days raised a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the assassins?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:15 - Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles; who were also in Christ before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7 - But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5 - So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:2 - I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - nor went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17 - And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21 - Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8 - but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
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