ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΚΕΝ, προεφθακεν
PROEPHTHAKEN, proephthaken
Sounds Like: pro-EF-tha-ken
Translations: has anticipated, has come before, has gotten ahead of, has preceded
From the root: ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb meaning 'to anticipate', 'to come before', or 'to get ahead of'. It describes an action that happens earlier than expected or before someone else. It is formed from the preposition πρό (pro), meaning 'before', and the verb φθάνω (phthanō), meaning 'to come first' or 'to anticipate'.
Inflection: Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G4399 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 10:23
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑ — I anticipated, I came before, I preceded, I was beforehand, I got ahead of
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑΝ — came before, anticipated, arrived first, outran, overtook
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑΣ — you anticipated, you came before, you were beforehand, you outran
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΕΝ — anticipated, came before, outran, outstripped, prevented
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ — to anticipate, to come before, to be beforehand, to prevent, to precede
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΕΙ — will come upon, will anticipate, will overtake, will precede, will come to meet
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΗ — prevention, anticipation, a prevention, an anticipation
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΟΝ — come quickly, anticipate, prevent, arrive first
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΩΜΕΝ — let us anticipate, let us come before, let us be beforehand, let us get ahead of
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