ΠΡΟΗΣΘΟΝΤΟ, προησθοντο
PROĒSTHONTO, proēsthonto
Sounds Like: pro-EES-thon-toh
Translations: they perceived beforehand, they became aware beforehand, they foresaw
From the root: ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΑΝΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb, formed from the prefix 'προ-' (pro-), meaning 'before' or 'in advance', and the verb 'αἰσθάνομαι' (aisthanomai), meaning 'to perceive' or 'to become aware'. Therefore, 'προαισθάνομαι' means 'to perceive beforehand' or 'to become aware in advance'. The form 'προήσθοντο' is the 3rd person plural aorist indicative middle, indicating that 'they' performed the action of perceiving beforehand for themselves or in their own interest.
Inflection: 3rd Person Plural, Aorist, Indicative, Middle Voice
Strong’s numbers: G4253 (Lookup on BibleHub), G143 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 9:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΑΝΟΜΑΙ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΑΝΟΜΑΙ — to perceive beforehand, to foresee, to foreknow
- ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΟΙΝΤΟ — they might perceive beforehand, they might foresee, they might anticipate
- ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΟΜΕΝΟΙ — foreseeing, perceiving beforehand, having a premonition, having a presentiment, having foreknowledge
- ΠΡΟΑΙΣΘΟΜΕΝΟΣ — perceiving beforehand, having perceived beforehand, foreseeing, having foreseen, foreknowing, having foreknown
- ΠΡΟΗΣΘΗΜΕΝΟΙΣ — to those who had perceived beforehand, for those who had perceived beforehand, to those who had foreseen, for those who had foreseen, to those who had anticipated, for those who had anticipated
- ΠΡΟΗΣΘΗΜΕΝΩ — (to) having perceived beforehand, (to) having become aware beforehand, (to) having foreseen
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