ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑ, προτερα
PROTERA, protera
Sounds Like: PRO-teh-rah
Translations: former, earlier, previous, prior
From the root: ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'former' or 'earlier'. It is used to describe something that came before in time or order. For example, it can refer to 'former days' or 'previous things'. It often appears in comparative contexts, indicating something is 'more former' or 'prior' to something else.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Vocative, Feminine; or Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4387 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:39
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:147
- Book 12 — 9:357
- Book 14 — 10:225, 10:262
- Book 15 — 5:158
- Book 17 — 4:62, 6:180
- Book 18 — 8:308
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 75:419
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 13:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 10:14
- Numbers — 10:33, 32:30
- Judith — 9:5
- 1 Maccabees — 8:24
- Wisdom — 7:29
- Sirach — 1:4
- Isaiah — 46:9, 48:3
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑʼ — former, earlier, previous, first, prior, (the) former things, (the) previous things
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑΙ — former, earlier, previous, former ones, earlier ones
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑΙΣ — former, earlier, previous
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑΝ — former, a former, earlier, previous, a previous
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΑΣ — of former, of earlier, of previous
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΕΣ — former, earlier, previous, first
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟ — former, earlier, first, a former (thing), an earlier (thing), a first (thing)
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΙ — former, earlier, previous, prior, first
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΙΣ — former, earlier, previous, prior, of former times, of earlier times
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — before, formerly, first, earlier, a former thing, a prior thing
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ — former, earlier, first, prior, a former, an earlier, a first, a prior
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΥ — of former, of earlier, of first, of previous
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΥΣ — former, earlier, previous, former ones, earlier ones, previous ones
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΩ — of former, of previous, of earlier, of past
- ΠΡΟΤΕΡΩΝ — of former things, of previous things, of earlier things
- ΠΡΟΤΟΥ — before, formerly, previously, first
- ΤΑΠΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — the former things, the earlier things, the previous things
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