ΠΡΩΤΩ, πρωτω
PRŌTŌ, prōtō
Sounds Like: PRO-toh
Translations: first, foremost, chief, principal, before, at the first, in the first
From the root: ΠΡΩΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'first' or 'foremost'. It is used to indicate something that is initial in time, order, or importance. In the dative case, as seen here, it often translates to 'at the first' or 'in the first' when referring to a time or place, or 'to the first' when indicating direction or recipient.
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G4413 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:236
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 20:1
- 1 Chronicles — 12:16
- Esther — 3:7, 3:12
- Zechariah — 6:2
- Matthew — 21:28
- Luke — 11:26, 16:5
- Acts of the Apostles — 28:7
- 1 Timothy — 1:16
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 4:197
- Book 8 — 8:225
- Book 9 — 2:18, 8:173
- Book 11 — 1:1, 3:33, 4:99, 4:109
- Book 13 — 3:78, 6:213, 8:236
- Book 17 — 1:7
- Book 19 — 1:123, 1:124
- Book 20 — 8:158
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:5
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 7:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 32:17, 32:19
- Exodus — 40:15
- Leviticus — 23:5
- Numbers — 9:1, 20:1, 28:16, 33:3
- 1 Kings — 16:23
- 1 Chronicles — 12:15
- 2 Chronicles — 27:5, 29:3
- Ezra (Alpha) — 6:16
- Ezra (Beta) — 1:1, 5:13, 6:3
- Esther — 3:12, 8:9
- 2 Maccabees — 14:4
- Ezekiel — 30:20, 40:1, 45:18, 45:21
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 9:1, 11:1
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 9:2, 10:1, 11:1
- Zechariah — 6:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΩΤΟΣ.
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.
- ΟΠΡΩΤΟΣ — the first, a first
- ΠΡΟΤΑ — first, foremost, chief, principal, earliest, original
- ΠΡΟΤΗΣ — first, a first, foremost, chief, principal
- ΠΡΟΤΩΝ — of first, of the first, of former, of the former
- ΠΡΩΤΑ — first, foremost, chief, principal, first things, firstly, at first, before
- ΠΡΩΤΑΙ — first, foremost, earliest
- ΠΡΩΤΑΙΣ — first, foremost, earliest
- ΠΡΩΤΑΣ — first, a first, former, earliest, chief, principal
- ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΥΣΑ — chief, principal, leading, foremost, a capital city, the capital city
- ΠΡΩΤΗ — first, a first, foremost, chief, principal, earliest
- ΠΡΩΤΗΝ — first, earliest, foremost, the first, the earliest, the foremost
- ΠΡΩΤΗΣ — of first, of the first, first
- ΠΡΩΤΟ — first, foremost, chief, principal, earliest, before, at the first, in the first place
- ΠΡΩΤΟΙ — first, foremost, chief, the first, the foremost, the chief, (to) the first, (to) the foremost, (to) the chief
- ΠΡΩΤΟΙΣ — first, foremost, chief, principal, a first, the first
- ΠΡΩΤΟΝ — first, foremost, chief, principal, a first thing, before, at the first, in the first place
- ΠΡΩΤΟΣ — first, a first, chief, principal, foremost, the first
- ΠΡΩΤΟΥ — of first, of the first, of the foremost
- ΠΡΩΤΟΥΣ — first, foremost, chief, first ones, foremost ones, chief ones
- ΠΡΩΤΩΝ — first, foremost, chief, principal, earliest, original, a first, the first
- ΠΡΩΤΩΣ — first, at first, for the first time, firstly, before all others
- ΠΡΩΤ‾Η‾ — first, the first
- ΤΟΝΠΡΩΤΟΝ — the first, a first
- ‾ΠΡΩ‾Ν — first, former, earliest, foremost, chief, principal
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