noun · feminine
pronoias
Strong’sG4307
forethought, foresight
stem pronoi-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.
πρόνοια, -ας, ἡ
(< πρόνοος, careful), [in LXX: Da LXX 6:18 (19) Wi 14:3 17:2, II-IV Mac6*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4307 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpron'-oy-ah
forethought, i.e. provident care or supply
Fromfrom G4306;
King Jamesprovidence, provision.
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
Ionic dialect προν-οίη, ἡ, (πρόνοος) perceiving beforehand, foresight, foreknowledge, τοὖπος τὸ θεοπρόπον τᾶς παλαιφάτου π. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ={πρόγνωσις}Refs 5th c.BC+
II foresight, forethought, ἐπῄνεσ᾽.. πρόνοιαν ἣν ἔθου Refs 5th c.BC+; προνοίας οὕνεκα so far as foresight, caution is required, Refswith forethought, purposely, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to κατὰ τύχην, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ προνοίας τινῶν by their precautions, Refs 5th c.BC+; προνοίᾳ τῶν συγγενῶν, φίλων, τῆς πόλεως, by care for.., Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of crimes committed with design or malice prepense, ἐκ προνοίας τραῦμα, ἐκ π. φόνοι, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἐκ π., opposed to ἀκούσια, Refs 4th c.BC+; so οὐδεμία π. ἐστι τραύματος no intention of wounding, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρόνοιαν ἔχειν (or ἴσχειν) τινός to take thought for.., show care for.., Refs 5th c.BC+infinitive, πολλὴν π. εἶχεν εὐσχήμως (perhaps εὐσχήμων) πεσεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλὴν π. ἔχειν μέλλοντας.. to beware of doing a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 providence, τοῦ θείου ἡ π. Refs 5th c.BC+: absolutely, divine providence, προνοίας ἔργῳ Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 Refs 4th c.BC+ name for five, Refs
II.4 office of προνοητής, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III Πρόνοια Ἀθηνᾶ Athena as goddess of Forethought, under which name she was worshipped at Delphi, Refs 4th c.BC+: this name of Athena, which is guaranteed by the context in Refs 8th 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 | pronoias | pronoiais |
| object accusative | pronoian1×πρόνοιαν | pronoiain |
| direct address vocative | pronoiar | pronoiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pronoiau1×προνοίας | pronoiaiu |
| to, for dative | pronoia | pronoiai |
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
pronoia 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
pronoian“provision”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 13:14… kurion Iēsun Christon, kai tau sarkau pronoian mē poiovōr eis epithumiain.… Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
pronoiau“foresight”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 24:2… te ethne houte dia tau sau pronoiau… enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.