2001 Translation

PRONOIA, pronoia

Sounds Like: PRO-noy-ah

Translations: providence, a providence, foresight, forethought, provision

From the root: ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to foresight, forethought, or divine providence. It implies a careful planning or provision for the future, often with a sense of divine care or guidance. It is a compound word formed from the preposition πρό (pro), meaning "before" or "in front of," and the noun νοῦς (nous), meaning "mind" or "intellect," suggesting a "mind before" or "fore-mind."

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4307 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:201

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:51

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 9:24, 13:19, 17:22
• Wisdom — 14:3
• Shepherd of Hermas — 3:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 31:283

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 7:174, 9:236, 15:329, 16:349
• Book 4 — 3:47, 6:128, 6:157, 8:223
• Book 5 — 1:4, 1:91
• Book 6 — 13:300
• Book 7 — 1:23, 15:387
• Book 10 — 10:214
• Book 12 — 2:101, 6:160
• Book 13 — 5:163
• Book 14 — 16:482
• Book 17 — 1:9, 6:156
• Book 19 — 1:38, 1:39, 1:72, 1:106
• Book 20 — 1:5, 2:18

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 4:13, 19:8, 31:12
• Book Three — 2:20, 7:13
• Book Five — 1:33, 13:8
• Book Seven — 6:30

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 118:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 69:389, 76:425

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 3 Maccabees — 5:30
• 4 Maccabees — 9:24, 13:19, 17:22
• Wisdom — 14:3

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 3:4

From the same root

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

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.

• ΠΡΟΝΕΙΑΙ — foresight, providence, forethought, a foresight, a providence, a forethought
• ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑΝ — providence, forethought, provision, a provision, care, foresight
• ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑΣ — of providence, of forethought, of care, of provision, of foresight

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