πρό prep. with genitive, [in LXX chiefly for פָּנִים ;] before; (a) of place: Act.12:6, 14 14:13, Jas.5:9; π. προσώπου (= Heb. פָּנִים, Deu.3:18, Mal.3:1, al.; Bl., § 40, 9), Mat.11:10, Mrk.1:2, Luk.1:76 7:27 9:52 10:1, Act.14:13; (b) of time: Mat.8:29 24:38, Luk.11:38 21:12, Jhn.11:55 13:1 17:24, Act.5:36 21:38, 1Co.2:7 4:5, Eph.1:4, Col.1:17, 2Ti.1:9 4:21, Tit.1:2, Heb.11:5, 1Pe.1:20, Ju 25; π. ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων, fourteen years ago, 2Co.12:2; π. προσώπου (see supr.), Act.13:24; with genitive of person(s), Mat.5:12, Jhn.5:7 10:8, Rom.16:7, Gal.1:17; with genitive art. inf. (= πρίν; M, Pr., 100; Bl., § 69, 7), Mat.6:8 Luk.2:21 22:15, Jhn.1:49 13:19 17:5, Act.23:15, Gal.2:12 3:23; as in late writers (resembling a Latin idiom but independent of it; B1., § 40, 5; M, Pr., 100 f.; of. Am 2Ma.15:36, and for other exx., Soph., Lex., see word), πρὸ ἓξ ἡμέρας τοῦ πάσχα, on the sixth day before the Passover, Jhn.12:1; (with) of preference: π. πάντων, Jas.5:12, 1Pe.4:8; (d) in compos., α with subst., of position before: προαύλιον, πρόδρομος; priority of rank or order, προπάτωρ; anticipation, πρό γνωσις, πρό νοια; β with adj., intensity, πρόδηλος; γ with verb., of place, προάγω, προβαίνω; of preference, προαιρέομαι.† (AS)
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G4253 — πρό
pro · before · Greek
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Matthew 5:12 · πρὸrejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.Matthew 6:8 · πρὸbe ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;Matthew 8:29 · πρὸand lo, they cried out, saying, ‘What—to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?’Matthew 11:10 · πρὸfor this is he of whom it hath been written, Lo, I do send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.Matthew 24:38 · πρὸfor as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,Mark 1:2 · πρὸAs it hath been written in the prophets, ‘Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,’—Luke 2:21 · πρὸAnd when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.Luke 7:27 · πρὸthis is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;Luke 9:52 · πρὸand he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,Luke 10:1 · πρὸAnd after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,Luke 11:38 · πρὸand the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.Luke 21:12 · Πρὸand before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake;Luke 22:15 · πρὸand he said unto them, ‘With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,John 1:48 · πρὸNathanael saith to him, ‘Whence me dost thou know?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Philip’s calling thee—thou being under the fig-tree—I saw thee.’John 5:7 · πρὸThe ailing man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.’John 10:8 · πρὸall, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;John 11:55 · πρὸAnd the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;John 12:1 · πρὸJesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;John 13:1 · ΠρὸAnd before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who are in the world—to the end he loved them.John 13:19 · πρὸFrom this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am he;John 17:5 · πρὸ‘And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;John 17:24 · πρὸ‘Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.Acts 5:36 · πρὸfor before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.Acts 12:6 · πρὸand when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,Acts 12:14 · πρὸand having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,Acts 13:24 · πρὸJohn having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;Acts 14:13 · πρὸAnd the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,Acts 21:38 · πρὸart not thou, then, the Egyptian who before these days made an uprising, and did lead into the desert the four thousand men of the assassins?’Acts 23:15 · πρὸnow, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.’Romans 16:7 · πρὸsalute Andronicus and Junias, my kindred, and my fellow-captives, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.1 Corinthians 2:7 · πρὸbut we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,1 Corinthians 4:5 · πρὸso, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.2 Corinthians 12:2 · πρὸI have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago—whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known—such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;Galatians 1:17 · πρὸnor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,Galatians 2:12 · πρὸfor before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,Galatians 3:23 · ΠρὸAnd before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,Ephesians 1:4 · πρὸaccording as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,Colossians 1:17 · πρὸand himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.2 Timothy 1:9 · πρὸwho did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,2 Timothy 4:21 · πρὸbe diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.Titus 1:2 · πρὸupon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,Hebrews 11:5 · πρὸBy faith Enoch was translated—not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to—that he had pleased God well,James 5:9 · πρὸmurmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.James 5:12 · ΠρὸAnd before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.1 Peter 1:20 · πρὸforeknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,1 Peter 4:8 · πρὸand, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;Jude 1:25 · πρὸto the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.