noun · feminine
prognōsias
Strong’sG4268
foreknowledge
stem prognōsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
**† πρό-γνωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< προγινώσκω), [in LXX: Jth 9:6 11:19*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4268 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidprog'-no-sis
forethought
Fromfrom G4267;
King Jamesforeknowledge.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
foreknowledge, LXX+NT
II perceiving beforehand, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.b in Medicine texts, prognosis of diseases, Κῳακαὶ π. title of work by Refs 5th c.BC+; title of work by Democritus.
III prediction, Refs 1st c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | prognōsias | prognōsiais |
| object accusative | prognōsian1×πρόγνωσιν | prognōsiain |
| direct address vocative | prognōsiar | prognōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prognōsiau | prognōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | prognōsia1×προγνώσει | prognōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
prognōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
prognōsian“foreknowledge”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Peter 1:2kata prognōsian theou patrou, en hagiasmo pneumeu, eis …according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified …
prognōsia“foreknowledge”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 2:23houton ta horizorēnta boula kai prognōsia tou theou ekdoton dia cheirau anomoiu …… up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of …