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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 47 times in 47 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29 - Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Yeshua, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10 - For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:38

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:2 - As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Yeshua, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27 - This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52 - and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Shomroni, so as to prepare for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38 - When the Parush saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:48 - Natan'el said to him, "How do you know me?" Yeshua answered him, "Before Pilipos called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was at hand. Many went up from the country to Yerushalayim before the Pesach, to purify themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Then six days before the Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El'azar was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the feast of the Pesach, Yeshua knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:19 - From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I AM.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36 - For before these days Todah rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: 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 - The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Rock was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14 - When she recognized Rock's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Rock was standing in front of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24 - before his coming, when Yochanan had first preached the immersion of repentance to Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - The Kohen of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - Aren't you then the Mitzrian, who before these days stirred up to 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, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Messiah 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, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds to our glory,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - nor did I go up to Yerushalayim to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into `Arav. Then I returned to Dammesek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before some people came from Ya`akov, he ate with the Goyim. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17 - He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - who saved us and 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 Messiah Yeshua before times eternal,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21 - Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before eternal times;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith, Hanokh was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the eretz, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8 - And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:25 - to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amein.
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