2001 Translation

PROONTAS, proontas

Sounds Like: pro-ON-tas

Translations: those who are before, those who exist before, those who have gone before, those who are ahead

From the root: ΠΡΟΕΙΜΙ

Part of Speech: Participle

Explanation: This word is a present active participle, masculine, accusative, plural, derived from the verb 'πρόειμι' (proeimi), meaning 'to go before' or 'to be before/exist before'. It describes individuals who are in a state of being or going before something or someone else. In context, it often refers to those who are already present, established, or have preceded others in some capacity.

Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Accusative, Plural

Strong’s number: G4280 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:36

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΕΙΜΙ.

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.

• ΠΡΟΕΙΜΙ — to go before, to go forward, to precede, to lead the way
• ΠΡΟΟΝ — being before, existing before, pre-existing, that which is before, the one who is before
• ΠΡΟΩΝ — being before, existing before, a being before, an existing before

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