ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑ, προεφθασα
PROEPHTHASA, proephthasa
Sounds Like: pro-EF-tha-sa
Translations: I anticipated, I came before, I preceded, I was beforehand, I got ahead of
From the root: ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the prefix ΠΡΟ- (pro-), meaning 'before' or 'in front of', and the verb ΦΘΑΝΩ (phthanō), meaning 'to arrive' or 'to come'. Together, it means to arrive or act before someone or something else, to anticipate, or to get ahead of. It is used to describe an action that occurs prior to another event or person.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G4399 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Jonah — 4:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Jonah — 4:2
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.
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΚΕΝ — has anticipated, has come before, has gotten ahead of, has preceded
- 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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