Greek adjective · G4416
πρωτότοκος
prototokospro-tot-ok'-os
firstborn
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prōtótokos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4416is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4416
first-born (usually as noun, literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: firstbegotten(-born).
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
prototokos is rendered "firstborn". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:7And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7πρωτότοκον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- firstborn7
- of firstborn1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρῶτος | protos | first: best | Uses152 |
| πρωτοκλισία | protoklisia | place of honor | Uses5 |
| πρωτοκαθεδρία | protokathedria | seat of honor | Uses4 |
| πρωτεύω | proteuo | be first | Uses1 |
| πρωτοτόκια | prototokia | birthright | Uses1 |
| πρωτοστάτης | protostates | ringleader | Uses1 |
| πρῶτον | proton | first | Usesnot recorded |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- πρωτότοκον3
- πρωτότοκος3
- πρωτότοκα1
- πρωτοτόκων1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular3A-ASM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3A-NSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
Luke
one use
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
- πρωτότοκονprototokonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: firstborn
Romans
one use
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- πρωτότοκονprototokonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: firstborn
Colossians
two uses
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- πρωτότοκοςprototokosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: firstborn
And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
- πρωτότοκοςprototokosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: firstborn
Hebrews
three uses
And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
- πρωτότοκονprototokonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Firstborn
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
- πρωτότοκαprototokaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: firstborn
in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
- πρωτοτόκωνprototokonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of firstborn
Revelation
one use
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
- πρωτότοκοςprototokosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: firstborn
Where it leads
Studies that open this word2
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.