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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 be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29 - “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10 - This is the one about whom it is written: “ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:38 - For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered 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: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”[fn]—

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:76

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:76 - And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27 - This is the one about whom it is written: “ ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52 - And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:1 - After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[fn] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38 - But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all 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, “I have eagerly 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 - “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go 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 - “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:23 - “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36 - Some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14 - When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24 - Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:15 - Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among[fn] the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7 - No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5 - Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:2 - I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - Before the coming of this faith,[fn] we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. 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 hold together.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21 - Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.”[fn] For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8 - Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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