πρότερον
próteron · G4386 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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before, former, formerly
Pertaining to a point of time earlier in a sequence
ExamplesJohn 6:62 “What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
John 7:50 Nicodemus (the one who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them,
John 9:8 So the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is this not the one who used to sit and beg?”
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the first time
First, with the implication of emphasis, frequently in reference to time
Examples2 Corinthians 1:15 In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;
Galatians 4:13 but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;
Hebrews 7:27 who has no daily need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because He did this once for all time when He offered up Himself.
In the other Testament 1 word
- רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn · H7223 · first, former, formost
- רִאשׁוֹן (riʼshôwn, H7223) רִאשׁוֹן primarily denotes temporal precedence in the sense of 'first' or 'former' (often with ordinal or comparative force), while πρότερον (próteron, G4386) πρότερον is an adverbial form specifically meaning 'previously' or 'formerly' (temporal anteriority without necessarily implying rank or sequence); the Hebrew term encompasses a broader semantic range including ordinal 'first' and 'beginning,' whereas the Greek term is more narrowly focused on the adverbial sense of prior time.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- The first time60.47
- The adverb describes an occasion that precedes a later one in sequence. Paul's reminder of his first visit to Galatia uses this term: “but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time” (Galatians 4:13).
- Before, former, formerly67.18
- This lexeme's own occurrences are consistently this sense: “Nicodemus (the one who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them” (John 7:50).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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