Strong's Greek · G4253

πρό

pró

above, ago, before, or ever

Definition

"fore", i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to

Derivation

a primary preposition;

Appears 47 times in Scripture

Luke 7:27

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

John 13:1

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

Matthew 6:8

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

John 1:48

“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Luke 22:15

And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

Mark 1:2

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”

Luke 2:21

When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.

Matthew 11:10

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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