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Lexicon :: Strong's G4253 - pro

Aa
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)
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxMat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29 - And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10 - This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:38 - Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:2 - Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27 - This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52 - And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:1 - Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38 - And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:48 - Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:19 - From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36 - For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14 - And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24 - For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:15 - So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7 - But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5 - For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:2 - I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17 - He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21 - Do your best to come before the winter. Eubulus sends you his love, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8 - And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:25 - To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.
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