ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΑΣ, προκρινας
PROKRINAS, prokrinas
Sounds Like: pro-KREE-nas
Translations: having preferred, having chosen, having judged before, having esteemed above
From the root: ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This is the aorist active participle of the verb προκρίνω (prokrino). It means to prefer, choose before, or judge as superior. As a participle, it describes an action completed prior to the main verb, often functioning adverbially to indicate the reason or manner of an action. For example, 'having preferred X, he did Y'.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Singular
Strong’s number: G4264 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 7:131
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΩ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΚΕΚΡΙΤΑΙ — it has been preferred, it has been chosen beforehand, it has been decided beforehand
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΘΕΙΗ — might be preferred, might be chosen, might be esteemed above
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΘΕΙΣ — chosen, preferred, selected, having been chosen, having been preferred, having been selected
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΘΕΙΣΑΝ — chosen beforehand, preferred, selected, the one chosen beforehand, a chosen one
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΘΕΝΤΑ — preferred, chosen, selected, decided upon
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΘΕΝΤΙ — (to) preferred, (to) chosen, (to) selected
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΑΝΤΑΣ — having preferred, having chosen before, having esteemed above, having judged before
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΑΝΤΕΣ — preferring, having preferred, choosing, having chosen, deciding, having decided
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΟΜΕΝ — we prefer, we choose beforehand, we judge before
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΟΝΤΟΣ — preferring, choosing, selecting, judging beforehand, of preferring, of choosing
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΩ — to prefer, to choose before, to decide beforehand, to give preference to
- ΠΡΟΚΡΙΝΩΝ — preferring, choosing before, judging before, deciding beforehand
- ΠΡΟΥΚΡΙΝΑ — I preferred, I chose, I decided beforehand
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