ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΥΣΑΙ, προλαμβανουσαι
PROLAMBANOUSAI, prolambanousai
Sounds Like: pro-lam-BAH-noo-sai
Translations: taking beforehand, anticipating, surprising, seizing beforehand, pre-occupying
From the root: ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'taking beforehand' or 'anticipating'. It describes an action that is happening concurrently with the main verb, indicating that the subject is performing the action of taking or seizing something before another event or person. It is a compound word formed from 'πρό' (before) and 'λαμβάνω' (to take, to receive).
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4298 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 3:70
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΩ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΜΜΕΝΑ — taken beforehand, preconceived, assumed, anticipated, things taken beforehand, preconceived notions
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΕΙ — to take beforehand, to anticipate, to seize beforehand, to preoccupy, to prevent, to come before
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΕΙΣΑΝ — taken beforehand, received beforehand, anticipated, seized beforehand
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΕΝ — has taken beforehand, has received beforehand, has anticipated, has preoccupied
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΕΣΑΝ — they had taken beforehand, they had received beforehand, they had anticipated, they had preconceived
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΟΤΕΣ — having taken beforehand, having anticipated, having preoccupied, those who have taken beforehand, those who have anticipated, those who have preoccupied
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΥΙΑ — having taken beforehand, having anticipated, having preoccupied, having seized beforehand
- ΠΡΟΕΙΛΗΦΩΣ — having taken beforehand, having anticipated, having received beforehand, having seized beforehand
- ΠΡΟΕΛΑΒΕΝ — he/she/it anticipated, he/she/it took beforehand, he/she/it came before, he/she/it outran, he/she/it surprised
- ΠΡΟΕΛΑΒΕΣ — you took beforehand, you seized beforehand, you anticipated, you preoccupied
- ΠΡΟΕΛΑΒΟΝ — I took beforehand, I anticipated, I came before, I seized beforehand, I prevented, I outran
- ΠΡΟΕΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΝ — to take beforehand, to anticipate, to seize first, to get ahead of, to pre-occupy
- ΠΡΟΛΑΒΕΙΝ — to anticipate, to take beforehand, to come before, to surprise, to prevent, to outrun, to pre-occupy
- ΠΡΟΛΑΒΟΙ — might take beforehand, might anticipate, might come before, might surprise, might prevent
- ΠΡΟΛΑΒΟΝΤΑΣ — having taken beforehand, having anticipated, having seized first, having come before, having surprised
- ΠΡΟΛΑΒΩΝ — having taken beforehand, having anticipated, having come before, having surprised, having seized beforehand, having prevented
- ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΙ — takes beforehand, takes first, anticipates, surprises, comes upon, overtakes
- ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΕΙΝ — to anticipate, to take beforehand, to come before, to surprise, to prevent, to preoccupy, to seize first
- ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΝΤΟΣ — taking beforehand, anticipating, coming before, seizing, surprising, pre-occupying, pre-empting
- ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΝΤΩΝ — of those taking beforehand, of those anticipating, of those surprising, of those coming before
- ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΑΝΩ — to take beforehand, to anticipate, to surprise, to come upon, to seize first, to preoccupy
- ΠΡΟΛΗΜΦΘΕΙΣ — taken beforehand, caught, surprised, overtaken, seized, anticipated
- ΠΡΟΛΗΜΦΘΗ — be caught, be overtaken, be surprised, be detected, be found out
- ΠΡΟΛΗΦΘΕΝΤΑΣ — those taken beforehand, those caught, those surprised, those anticipated
- ΠΡΟΛΗΦΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having been taken beforehand, having been anticipated, having been surprised, having been preoccupied, having been seized first
- ΠΡΟΥΛΑΒΟΝ — they took beforehand, they anticipated, they seized beforehand, they came before, they prevented
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