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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 ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:8 - be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:29 - and lo, they cried out, saying, 'What -- to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:10 - for this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:38 - for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:2 - As it hath been written in the prophets, 'Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:76

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:76 - And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:21 - And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:27 - this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:52 - and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:1 - And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:38 - and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - and he said unto them, 'With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:48 - Nathanael saith to him, 'Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, 'Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 - all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 - And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:1 - Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world -- to the end he loved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:19 - 'From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am he;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - 'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - 'Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:23 - saying -- 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:36 - for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:14 - and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:24 - John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:13 - And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:38

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:38 - art not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:15 - now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:7 - salute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7 - but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:5 - so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:2 - I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known -- such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:17 - nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:23 - And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:17 - and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:21 - be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:5 - By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:9 - murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:12 - And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:8 - and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
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