Strong’s G4386 · Greek
πρότερον
próteron · prot'-er-on
Origin neuter of πρότερος (G4387) as adverb (with or without the article);
Meaning previously
In the King James Version before, (at the) first, former.
In 10 verses of the King James Version
- John 6:62What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
- John 7:51Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
- John 9:8The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
- 2 Corinthians 1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
- Galatians 4:13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
- 1 Timothy 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
- Hebrews 4:6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
- Hebrews 7:27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
- Hebrews 10:32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
- 1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.