2001 Translation

PRIN, prin

Sounds Like: PRIN

Translations: before, sooner, until, ere

From the root: ΠΡΙΝ

Part of Speech: Adverb, Conjunction

Explanation: This word functions as an adverb or a conjunction, indicating a point in time prior to another event or action. As an adverb, it means 'before' or 'sooner'. As a conjunction, it means 'before' or 'until', often introducing a clause that describes an event that has not yet happened. It is frequently used with an infinitive or a subjunctive verb.

Inflection: Does not inflect

Strong’s number: G4250 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:137

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:15, 3:16, 7:7, 10:25
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:4

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 38:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judith — 7:14
• Tobit — 2:4, 3:8, 4:2, 14:15
• 1 Maccabees — 10:4
• 4 Maccabees — 5:6, 9:27
• Proverbs — 18:13
• Wisdom — 2:8
• Sirach — 11:7, 11:8, 14:13, 18:19, 18:21, 18:23, 19:17, 23:20, 48:25, 51:13
• Isaiah — 7:15, 7:16, 8:4, 17:14, 23:7, 28:4, 28:24, 46:10, 65:24, 66:7
• Joel — 3:4
• Malachi — 3:22
• Matthew — 1:18, 26:34, 26:75
• Mark — 14:30, 14:72
• Luke — 2:26, 22:61
• John — 4:49, 8:58, 14:29
• Acts of the Apostles — 2:20, 7:2, 25:16
• Shepherd of Hermas — 9:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:70, 10:177, 10:185, 12:207, 18:270
• Book 2 — 3:38, 6:150, 6:164, 7:171, 10:244
• Book 3 — 1:19, 2:41, 5:79, 6:141, 8:199, 9:236
• Book 4 — 1:10, 6:123, 6:130, 6:152, 6:153, 8:257, 8:268, 8:269
• Book 5 — 2:151, 4:195, 5:198, 8:293, 9:330, 10:349
• Book 6 — 1:3, 4:48, 5:76, 6:120, 6:122, 11:210, 11:223, 11:230, 14:370
• Book 7 — 4:77, 5:107, 9:222, 12:308
• Book 8 — 2:51, 6:163, 13:345
• Book 9 — 3:37, 9:200, 13:266
• Book 10 — 9:171
• Book 11 — 1:1, 7:297, 8:313
• Book 12 — 6:206, 9:360
• Book 13 — 6:193, 7:87, 16:414
• Book 14 — 4:71, 9:171
• Book 15 — 11:396
• Book 16 — 10:310
• Book 17 — 5:124, 8:193
• Book 18 — 4:89, 5:111, 5:118, 5:132, 6:173, 6:182, 6:205, 8:274, 9:318, 9:349
• Book 19 — 1:14, 1:44, 3:224, 6:295
• Book 20 — 4:78, 9:210

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:12, 5:9, 6:13, 7:2, 14:25, 18:8, 18:18, 18:21, 19:4, 31:6, 32:18, 34:20
• Book Two — 1:9, 2:19, 3:1, 7:12, 8:10, 8:12, 8:15, 8:23, 11:16, 12:11, 14:30, 16:16, 16:35, 17:12, 17:15, 19:2, 22:4
• Book Three — 2:17, 2:23, 4:3, 5:7, 6:20, 7:29, 7:121, 7:136, 7:138, 9:41, 10:7, 10:10, 10:24
• Book Four — 3:43, 3:89, 4:4, 7:15, 7:30, 8:25, 9:13, 9:43, 10:7
• Book Five — 1:39, 2:6, 2:31, 3:5, 11:16, 12:24, 13:34
• Book Six — 1:15, 1:16, 1:22, 1:66, 1:69, 2:12, 2:31, 3:37, 4:5, 5:14
• Book Seven — 6:19, 7:18, 8:128

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 4:1, 19:1, 23:1, 30:1, 31:1, 40:1, 42:1, 52:1, 53:1, 62:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 9:2, 43:6, 47:4, 66:3, 77:2, 77:3, 80:1, 81:2, 85:8, 103:3, 118:1, 127:2, 128:4, 141:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 28:137

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 2:3, 8:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 29:26
• Exodus — 1:19
• Numbers — 11:33
• Joshua — 2:8
• 1 Samuel — 2:15, 3:3, 3:7, 9:13
• 2 Kings — 2:9, 6:32
• Judith — 7:14
• Tobit — 2:4, 2:4, 3:8, 3:8, 4:2, 4:2, 8:20, 14:15, 14:15
• 1 Maccabees — 10:4
• 2 Maccabees — 8:14, 13:13
• 3 Maccabees — 5:28, 6:4, 6:31, 6:34
• 4 Maccabees — 5:6, 9:27
• Proverbs — 18:13
• Wisdom — 2:8
• Sirach — 11:7, 11:8, 14:13, 18:19, 18:21, 18:23, 19:17, 23:20, 48:25, 51:13
• Isaiah — 7:15, 7:16, 8:4, 17:14, 23:7, 28:4, 28:24, 46:10, 48:5, 65:24, 66:7
• Ezekiel — 33:22
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:42
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:35
• Joel — 2:31
• Malachi — 4:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 5 — 7:3
• Parable 9 — 16:3, 26:6

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 3 — 1:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 1:18, 26:34, 26:75
• Mark — 14:30, 14:72
• Luke — 2:26, 22:61
• John — 4:49, 8:58, 14:29
• Acts — 2:20, 7:2, 25:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΙΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΠΡΙ — before, until, sooner than
• ΠΡΙΘ — before, until, sooner than, rather than
• ΠΡΙΝΕἸΣ — before, until, sooner than
• ΠΡΙΝἨ — before, until, sooner than
• ΤΟΠΡΙΝ — formerly, before, previously, in times past

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