adjective
prōtotokos
Strong’sG4416
first-born
stem prōtotok-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books0 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.
πρωτότοκος, -ον
(< πρῶτος, τίκτω), [in LXX chiefly for בְּכוֹר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4416 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(paroxytone), Doric dialect πρᾱτοτόκος, ον, bearing or having borne her first-born, μήτηρ π., of a heifer, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὗς, ταὧς, Refs 4th c.BC+; of women, Refs 5th c.BC+
II proparoxytone πρωτότοκος, ον, passive,first-born, LXX+NT+4th c.AD+; π. ἐγὼ ἢ σύ LXX
II.2 metaphorically, π. πάσης κτίσεως NT; of Homer, opposed to Nicander, 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | prōtotokos | prōtotokas | prōtotokem | prōtotokois | prōtotokais | prōtotokeim |
| object accusative | prōtotokon | prōtotokan | prōtotokoin | prōtotokain | ||
| direct address vocative | prōtotokor | prōtotokar | prōtotokoir | prōtotokair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | prōtotokou | prōtotokau | prōtotokeu | prōtotokoiu | prōtotokaiu | prōtotokeiu |
| to, for dative | prōtotoko | prōtotoka | prōtotoke | prōtotokoi | prōtotokai | prōtotokei |
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
prōtotok 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
prōtotokon3×
Luke 2:7kai tiktata ton huion autau ton prōtotokon, kai sparganata auton kai anaklinata auton …And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in …
Romans 8:29… huiou autou, eis tem arō auton prōtotokon en polloi adelfoi;… so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Hebrews 1:6hotan de palin eisagateia ton prōtotokon eis tan oikoumenan, legatō; Kai proskunalar …And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let …
prōtotokos3×
Colossians 1:15… atō eikonas tou theou tou aoratou, prōtotokos pantau ktisiau,… image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:18… sōmeu tau ekklēsau; hos atō archas, prōtotokos ek toiu nekroiu, hina geneteia en …… church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that …
Revelation 1:5… Christou, tos marturos tos pistos, tos prōtotokos toiu nekroiu kai tos archontos toiu …… Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler …
prōtotokeim1×
Hebrews 11:28… haimeu, hina mē tos olothreuarōntos teim prōtotokeim thinganateia autoiu.… so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
prōtotokoiu1×
Hebrews 12:23kai ekklēsa prōtotokoiu apograforēntoiu en ouranoi, kai krito theo …… assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come …