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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 when she was in labor, 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 - In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - And I will send hornets[fn] before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days’ journey, to seek 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 the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and 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 will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall 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 - However, if they will not pass 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 me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by 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 this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come 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, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and 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 - Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - Let them bring them, and tell us
what is to happen.
Tell us the former things, what they are,
that we may consider them,
that we may know their outcome;
or declare to us the things to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 - remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - “The former things I declared of old;
they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;
then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, not long ago;
before today you have never heard of them,
lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the LORD 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 create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.
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