Greek adjective · G4387
πρότερος
proterosprot'-er-os
before
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: próteros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4387is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4387
prior or previous
The King James renders it: former.
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
proteros is rendered "before". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 6:62Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
John 6:62πρότερον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- before2
- former2
- first1
- previously1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρότερον | proteron | previously | Uses5 |
| προτίθεμαι | protithemai | to plan/present | Uses3 |
| προτρέχω | protrecho | to outrun | Uses2 |
| προτείνω | proteino | to stretch out | Uses1 |
| προτρέπομαι | protrepomai | to encourage | Uses1 |
| προτάσσω | protasso | to predetermine | Usesnot recorded |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- πρότερον5
- προτέραν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular5A-ASN-C
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF-C
John
three uses
Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
- πρότερονproteronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: before
Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
- πρότερονproteronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: former
At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
- πρότερονproteronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: before
2 Corinthians
one use
Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
- πρότερονproteronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: previously
Galatians
one use
You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
- πρότερονproteronadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: first
Ephesians
one use
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- προτέρανproteranadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: former
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.