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ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑΝ, προεφθασαν
PROEPHTHASAN, proephthasan
Sounds Like: pro-EF-tha-san
Translations: came before, anticipated, arrived first, outran, overtook
From the root: ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb meaning 'to come before,' 'to anticipate,' or 'to arrive first.' It describes an action of preceding someone or something, either in time or in position, often with the implication of getting ahead or outrunning. It can be used to describe someone arriving at a place before others, or an event occurring sooner than expected or before something else can happen.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G4399 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ.
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.
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΚΕΝ — has anticipated, has come before, has gotten ahead of, has preceded
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑ — I anticipated, I came before, I preceded, I was beforehand, I got ahead of
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΑΣ — you anticipated, you came before, you were beforehand, you outran
- ΠΡΟΕΦΘΑΣΕΝ — anticipated, came before, outran, outstripped, prevented
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΝΩ — to anticipate, to come before, to be beforehand, to prevent, to precede
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΕΙ — will come upon, will anticipate, will overtake, will precede, will come to meet
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΗ — prevention, anticipation, a prevention, an anticipation
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΟΝ — come quickly, anticipate, prevent, arrive first
- ΠΡΟΦΘΑΣΩΜΕΝ — let us anticipate, let us come before, let us be beforehand, let us get ahead of
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