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Lexicon :: Strong's G4387 - proteros

Aa
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, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; 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 BoxLev 18:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:12 - And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified 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 with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:22 - And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - (The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two 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 - For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they 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 thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:9 - Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:3 - I have declared the former things from of old; yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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, nor come into mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:20 - and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
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