ΠΡΟΥΧΕΙΝΔΟΚΟΥΝΤΑΣ, προυχεινδοκουντας
PROUCHEINDOKOUNTAS, proucheindokountas
Sounds Like: proo-KHEIN-doh-KOON-tas
Translations: seeming to excel, appearing to be preeminent, those who seemed to excel, those who appeared to be preeminent
From the root: ΠΡΟΕΧΩ, ΔΟΚΕΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This is a compound participle formed from the verbs προέχω (proechō, 'to excel, to be preeminent') and δοκέω (dokeō, 'to seem, to appear'). It describes individuals who are perceived or appear to be superior or to hold a position of prominence. It is used to refer to 'those who seemed to excel' or 'those who appeared to be preeminent'.
Inflection: Masculine, Plural, Accusative, Present Active Participle
Strong’s numbers: G4277 (Lookup on BibleHub), G1380 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:21
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΕΧΩ, ΔΟΚΕΩ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΥΧΕΙΝΔΟΚΟΥΝΤΑ — seeming to excel, appearing to be superior, appearing to be preeminent
- ΠΡΟΥΧΕΙΝΔΟΚΟΥΝΤΕΣ — thinking themselves to be preeminent, considering themselves to be leading, supposing themselves to be chief
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