Strong's Greek · G4253
G4253 pró
πρό
pro
before
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pró appears 47 times in Scripture, including Matthew 5:12 and Mark 1:2. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
"fore", i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to
In the King James Version
above, ago, before, or ever
Derivation
a primary preposition;
Appears 47 times in Scripture
“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.’”
“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.”
“Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”
““How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.””
“Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.”
“And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.”
“As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.””
“When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.”
“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.’”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
