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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 BoxGen 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:28 - And it came to pass as she was bringing forth, one thrust forth his hand, and the midwife having taken hold of it, bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one shall come out first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - Yet three days and Pharao shall remember thy office, and he shall restore thee to thy place of chief cupbearer, and thou shalt give the cup of Pharao into his hand, according to thy former high place, as thou wast wont to be cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And God said, I will pass by before thee with my glory, and I will call by my name, the Lord, before thee; and [fn] I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and will have pity on whom I will have pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass-offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days' journey to provide rest for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - Formerly the Ommin dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Enakim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - Let your wives and your children and your cattle dwell in the land, which he has given you; and ye shall go over [fn]well armed before your brethren, every one of you who is strong; and ye shall fight on their side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And he sent forth the hornet before you; and he drove them out from before you, even twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - (LXX 19:21) For thy servant knows that I have sinned: and, behold, I am come to-day before all Israel and the house of Joseph, to go down and meet my lord the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - And the rest of the acts of David, the former and the latter, are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire in wisdom concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - Let them draw nigh, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell us what things were of old, and we will apply our understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 - and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - and they have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and the events came to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and thou heardest not of them in former days: say not thou, Yea, I know them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For ye shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that [fn]brings up your rear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - (LXX 35:8) The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - and concerning its ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up some of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was bolder than the rest.
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