propetos

Strong’sG4312

impulsive, rash, reckless

stem propet-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

προπετής, -ές

(< προπίπτω), [in LXX: Pr 10:14 (אֱוִיל) 13:3 (פֹּשׂק) Si 9:18*;]

falling forwards, headlong. Metaph., precipitate, rash, reckless: of persons, II Ti 3:4; of things, Ac 19:36.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4312 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidprop-et-ace'

falling forward, i.e. headlong (figuratively, precipitate)

Fromfrom a compound of G4253 and G4098;

King Jamesheady, rash(-ly).

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

προπετ-ής, ές,
(προπίπτω) falling or slipping down in bed, εἰ π. γένοιτο Refs 5th c.BC+out of control, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 inclined forward, κεφαλὴ τοῦ βραχίονος π. ἐς τοὔμπροσθεν Refs 5th c.BC+; -έστεραι γένυες more prominent,Refs 5th c.BC+; sloping, of shoulders, Refs 2nd c.AD+; stooping, μὴ ὀρθὸς ἀλλὰ μικρῷ -έστερος Refs 4th c.BC+
3 thrown away, κεῖται προπετές [τὸ κάταγμα] Refs 5th c.BC+
4 drooping, at the point of death, ζῇ γὰρ π. Refs; ἡ π. Μοῖρα untimely, Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 prominent, of the eyes, Refs 2nd c.AD+; γνάθοι, ὀφρῦς, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II metaphorically,
II.1 being upon the point of, πολιὰς ἐπὶ χαίτας π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ready for, prone to a thing, ἐπί or εἴς τι, Refs 5th c.BC+: with infinitive, -έστατος μεταστῆσαι Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 headlong, π. ἄγειν τὸν ἀκροατήν Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 precipitate, rash, reckless, π. σώματος ἡδοναί Refs 4th c.BC+; π. γέλως uncontrolled laughter, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a lot, drawn at random, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4.b of persons, οἱ θρασεῖς προπετεῖς Refs 4th c.BC+; μανικὸς καὶ π. ἐπὶ τῶν κινδύνων Theopomp.Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὸ π., ={προπέτεια}, opposed to τὸ σεμνόν, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 ἁρμονίαι π. flowing rhythms, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.6 in Medicine texts, subject to diarrhoea, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III adverb -τῶς headlong, out of control, π. εἰς τὸ κάταντες φέρεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 metaphorically, headlong, hastily, π. φέρεσθαι εἰς τὴν τυραννίδα Id Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποκρίνεσθαι, ἀποφαίνεσθαι, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἔχειν to be rash, Refs 5th c.BC+; prematurely, Refs 3rd 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.

rash1×reckless1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	propetos	propetas	propetem1×προπετὲς	propetois1×προπετεῖς	propetais	propeteim
object accusative	propeton	propetan		propetoin	propetain
direct address vocative	propetor	propetar		propetoir	propetair
of, belonging to genitive	propetou	propetau	propeteu	propetoiu	propetaiu	propeteiu
to, for dative	propeto	propeta	propete	propetoi	propetai	propetei

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

propetstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

propet 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

propetem“rash”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Acts 19:36… atō vin katastelorēntoin huparcharō kai mēdenem propetem prassarō.… be calm and not do anything rash.

propetois“reckless”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Timothy 3:4prodotois, propetois, tuforēntois, filēdonois mallon ē filotheois,traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than …