noun · feminine
prothesmias
Strong’sG4287
appointed before
stem prothesmi-once in the New Testament1 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.
** προ-θέσμιος, -α, -ον,
[in Sm.: Jb 28:3, Da 9:26*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4287 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(i.e. ἡμέρα), ἡ, day appointed beforehand, a fixed or limited time, within which money was to be paid, actions brought, claims made, elections held, etc., and if this period was allowed to expire, no further proceedings were allowed, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐὰν ἡ π. ἐξήκῃ is past, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, fixed or appointed time, προθεσμίας οὔσης τῷ κινδύνῳ NT+5th c.BC+; οὐκ ἐτήρησε τὴν π. τῆς θεοῦ Refs 2nd c.AD+; π. φυσικὴ [νόσου] natural period, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 occasion of delay, Refs 1st c.AD+
II προθέσμιος, α, ον, adjective foreappointed, Ἔφεσος, ἡ π. τῶν γάμων (i.e. πόλις) Refs
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 | prothesmias | prothesmiais |
| object accusative | prothesmian | prothesmiain |
| direct address vocative | prothesmiar | prothesmiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prothesmiau1×προθεσμίας | prothesmiaiu |
| to, for dative | prothesmia | prothesmiai |
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
prothesmia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
prothesmiau“date set”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Galatians 4:2… epitropoin atō kai oikonomoin achri tau prothesmiau tou patrou.… to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.