Word

προβλέπω

problépō · G4265 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to provide for

    To provide for the needs of others, with the implication of anticipating such a need

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

  2. to choose beforehand, to select in advance

    To choose or select in advance of some other event

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

How it’s used In 3 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

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 2 entries
To choose beforehand, to select in advance30.100
The verb describes God's advance choice or selection of something for a purpose. Hebrews' conclusion to the roll call of the faithful uses this term: “because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:40).
To provide for35.35
The same verb, and the same single occurrence, also carries the sense of God supplying or furnishing something in advance. Hebrews' conclusion to the roll call of the faithful uses this term: “because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:40, where the verb's unique New Testament occurrence supports both the choosing and the providing senses).
Word family 10 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : to foresee (Psalm 36:13; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 20); 1 aorist middle…
: to foresee (Psalm 36:13; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 20); 1 aorist middle participle προβλεψαμενος; to provide: τί περί τίνος, Heb 11:40 (Winers Grammar, § 38, 6; Buttmann, 194 (167)).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

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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