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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 so it was, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - “Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former manner, when you were his butler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - “And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - ‘(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, 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 - ‘He shall consecrate to the LORD the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year as a trespass offering; but the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - So they departed from the mountain of the LORD on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them for the three days’ journey, to search 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 it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, LORD, are among these people; that You, LORD, are seen face to face and Your cloud stands above 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 ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell 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 - “But if they do not cross over armed with you, 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 - “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:33

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - (The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - “For ask now concerning 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 any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - “then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as 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 which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross 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 - ‘I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - “For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. Therefore here I am, the first to come today of all the house of Joseph to go 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, first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Do not say,
“Why were the former days better than these?”
For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the former things, what they were,
That we may consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us 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 - “I have declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
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 and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For you shall not go out with haste,
Nor go by 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 shall not be remembered or come to mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - “The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - “and the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearance was greater than his fellows.
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