πρόσφατος
prósphatos · G4372 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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new, recent, new and different
Pertaining to what is new and recent, in the sense of not previously existing
ExamplesHebrews 10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- νέος néos · G3501 · new, recent
- Standard Greek adjective for 'new' that can substitute for πρόσφατος in contexts emphasizing newness or freshness, though νέος is more general and lacks the specific 'recently made' nuance
- καινός kainós · G2537 · new, recent
- Greek adjective for 'new' emphasizing qualitative newness, overlaps with πρόσφατος in the sense of 'newly made/fresh' though καινός stresses unprecedented quality rather than temporal recentness
Contrasting words 2 words
- παλαιός palaiós · G3820 · old
- Standard lexical antonym of 'new/fresh/recent'; παλαιός denotes what is old or aged in direct opposition to πρόσφατος which denotes what is fresh or newly made
- ἀρχαῖος archaîos · G744 · for a long time, from the beginning, ancient
- Denotes what is ancient or of long standing, contrasting with the temporal recentness inherent in πρόσφατος
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָדָשׁ châdâsh · H2319 · new
- Standard translation equivalent for 'new/fresh' in Hebrew, directly corresponds to the 'fresh/new/recent' semantic component of πρόσφατος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- New, recent, new and different58.73
- The adjective describes something newly established, in contrast to what came before. Hebrews' teaching on access through Christ uses this term: “by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh” (Hebrews 10:20).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πρόσφατον (from πρό and σφάω or σφάζω; cf. Delitzsch, Commentary on Hebrews (as below),…
1. properly, lately slaughtered, freshly killed: Homer, Iliad 21, 757.
2. universally, recently or very lately made, new: ὁδός, Heb 10:20 (so from Aeschylus down; φίλος πρόσφατος, Sir. 9:10; οὐκ ἐστι πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπό τόν ἥλιον, Eccl 1:9). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 374f.
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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