Strong's Greek Concordance

G4386: πρότερον

próteron · “previously”

Definition

previously

KJV translates it as: before, (at the) first, former

Word origin: neuter of G4387 (πρότερος) as adverb (with or without the article);

Extended definition

before; (adv.) before, formerly, an earlier time
former, prior, Eph. 4:22; before, former, prior, Eph. 4:22; before, formerly, Jn. 6:62

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).

How G4386 is translated

  • formerly ×2
  • former ×2
  • first ×1

Bible verses with G4386 (próteron)

Próteron appears in 5 verses.

  • 1 Timothy 1:13

    Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

  • Hebrews 4:6

    Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

  • Hebrews 7:27

    Who 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 10:32

    But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

  • 1 Peter 1:14

    As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: