Word

προακούω

proakoúō · G4257 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to hear before

    To hear before or previously to an event in question

    Examples

    Colossians 1:5 because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To hear before24.65
The verb describes having heard something at an earlier time. Paul's letter to the Colossians uses this term: “because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel” (Colossians 1:5).
Word family 11 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist 2 person plural προηκούσατε: to hear before: τήν ἐλπίδα, the hoped for…
: 1 aorist 2 person plural προηκούσατε: to hear before: τήν ἐλπίδα, the hoped for salvation, before its realization, Col 1:5 (where cf. Lightfoot). (Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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