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GreekG4387Adjective

πρότερος

proteros

6Occurrences
G4387Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

prior or previous

comparative of G4253 (πρό);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A. Compar., πρότερος, -α, -ον, before, of time, place, rank, etc.; in NT always of Time, before, former. Adverbially, πρότερον, before, aforetime, formerly: opposite to ἔπειτα; τὸ π.; αἱ π. ἡμέραι; αἱ π. ἐπιθυμίαι.
LXX: for רִאשׁוֹן,לִפָנִים, etc.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

πρότερος appears 6 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

John
3
2 Corinthians
1
Ephesians
1
Galatians
1

Key Passages

2 Corinthians 1:15BSB

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

Ephesians 4:22BSB

to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Galatians 4:13BSB

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

John 6:62BSB

Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

John 7:50BSB

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.