the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #4302 - προλέγω
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- to say beforehand, to predict
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
did not use
this Strong's Number
προλέγω,
pick out, choose, prefer, Ἀθηναίων προλελεγμένοι Il. 13.689; ἐξοχώτατοι προλέγονται Pi. N. 2.18; ἀριστῆες πασᾶν ἐκ πολίων προλελεγμένοι Theoc. 13.18 .
II foretell, Aeol. aor. part. προλέξαις Alc. Supp. 22.7; predict, of an oracle, Hdt. 1.53, 8.136; μέμνησθ' ἁγὼ προλέγω A. Pr. 1071 (anap.), cf. S. OT 973; π. πρόρρησιν, of a physician, v.l. in Hp. Prog. 15; τὰ μέλλοντα Pl. Euthphr. 3c, cf. D. 19.298 . say beforehand, ταῦτα, ὅτι . . Pl. R. 337a, cf. Euthd. 275e, Hyp. Lyc. 7; ὡς προλέλεκται as was said above, Demetr. Eloc. 89; ὁ προλεχθείς the aforesaid,PMasp. 32.63 (vi A. D.), al. προλεγόμεναι (sc. θέσεις ) first principles, Cic. Fam. 9.18.3 . μακρὰ προλεγομένγ a long syllable placed, uttered first, Demetr. Eloc. 39 .
2. state publicly, proclaim, προὔλεγον τὸ ψήφισμα καθελοῦσι μὴ ἂν γίγνεσθαι πόλεμον Th. 1.139; προλεγέτω ἁ ἀρχά Foed.Delph.Pell. 1 A 5, cf. OGI 437.76 (Pergam., i B.C. ): c. acc. et inf., A. Th. 336 (lyr.), etc.: c. acc., ὁ νόμος πέφυκε προλέγειν ἃ μὴ δεῖ πράττειν Lycurg. 4; πολέμους ἀλλήλοις Plb. 13.3.5 .
3. π. τινὶ ἀπιέναι order him to . ., X. An. 7.7.3, cf. Din. 1.71; caution, warn, π. τινὶ μὴ φεύγειν E. Fr. 897.9 (anap.); π. τινί, εἰ θεραπεύσοιτο, ὅτι διαφθαρήσοιτο Antipho 4.2.4; ὡς οὐ . . Plb. 5.57.2 .
4. denounce punishment, π. δεσμόν τινι D. 24.60 .
προλέγω; imperfect προελεγον; to say beforehand, to predict, (so from Aeschylus and Herodotus down): 2 Corinthians 13:2; Galatians 5:21; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; (some (see R. V. marginal reading) would give προ( the sense of plainly in all these examples; cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word II. 2, and see πρό, d. ἆ. at the end).
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
προ -λέγω ,
[in LXX: Isaiah 41:26 (H5046 hi.) *;]
1. to tell or say beforehand: 2 Corinthians 13:2, Galatians 5:21, 1 Thessalonians 3:4 (R, txt.; cf. προεῖπον , but v. infr.).
2. to declare, tell plainly: 2Co, Ga, 1Th, ll. c. (R, mg.; v. MM, xxi, and cf. Isa, l.c.).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.