πρῶτον
prōton · G4412 · Greek · 59 occurrences
Meanings
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first
First in a series involving time, space, or set
ExamplesMatthew 17:10 And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Matthew 17:27 “However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”
Mark 4:28 “The soil produces crops by itself; first the stalk, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
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before, former, formerly
Pertaining to a point of time earlier in a sequence
ExamplesMatthew 5:24 leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you.
Matthew 7:5 “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye!
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most important
Pertaining to exceeding everything else in importance
ExamplesRomans 3:2 Great in every respect. First, that they were entrusted with the actual words of God.
In the other Testament 1 word
- רִאשׁוֹן riʼshôwn · H7223 · first, former, formost
- Greek adverbial form corresponding to Hebrew adjectival form, both denoting primacy in temporal or ordinal sequence ('first').
Semantic domains 4 entries
- For the first time60.48
- The adverb describes an action given priority in sequence over what follows. Jesus' teaching on seeking God's kingdom uses this term: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you” (Matthew 6:33).
- First60.46
- This lexeme's own occurrences frequently show the plain ordinal-sequence sense of this domain: “‘You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly’” (Matthew 7:5).
- Most important65.52
- This entry carries no independent occurrence of its own beyond the plain ordinal-sequence sense already attested; none of this lexeme's own occurrences carry the rank/importance sense of this domain. The domain is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster row, whose “most important” sense is independently attested by the paired form πρῶτος (prōtos, G4413), not by this entry.
- Before, former, formerly67.18
- This entry carries no independent occurrence of its own beyond the plain ordinal-sequence sense already attested; none of this lexeme's own occurrences carry the temporal “before/formerly” sense of this domain. The domain is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster row, whose “before, former, formerly” sense is independently attested by the paired form πρῶτος (prōtos, G4413), not by this entry.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 5 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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