Greek verb · G4302
προλέγω
prolegoprol-eg'-o
to tell or say beforehand; to declare, tell plainly
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prolégō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4302is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4302
to say beforehand, i.e. predict, forewarn
The King James renders it: foretell, tell before.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
prolego is rendered "to tell or say beforehand; to declare, tell plainly". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to tell or say beforehand".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 1:16“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
Acts 1:16προεῖπεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to tell or say beforehand, and to declare, tell plainly.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to tell or say beforehand2Co.13:2 | Tagged as
| Where2 Corinthians 13:2I already warned you the second time I was with you… |
| to declare, tell plainly | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προλαμβάνω | prolambano | to take beforehand | Uses3 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- προλέγω2
- προεῖπεν1
- προελέγομεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular2V-PAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2AAI-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-IAI-1P
Acts
one use
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
- προεῖπενproeipenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: foretold
2 Corinthians
one use
I already warned you the second time I was with you. So now in my absence I warn those who sinned earlier and everyone else: If I return, I will not spare anyone,
- προλέγωprolegoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I warn
Galatians
one use
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- προλέγωprolegoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I forewarn
1 Thessalonians
one use
Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.
- προελέγομενproelegomenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we were telling beforehand
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.