prokeimai · be set before

What it means

prokeimai (πρόκειμαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “be set before”.

Be present and in view.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Lie in view, laid out before one; be there.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• set before ×3
• are set forth ×1
• present ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×3
• Jude×1

• 2 Corinthians 8:12

  For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one may have, not according to what one does not have.

• Hebrews 6:18

  so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge may have strong comfort to hold on to the hope set before us.

• Hebrews 12:1

  Therefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

• Hebrews 12:2

  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Jude 1:7

  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which in the same way as these indulged in sexual immorality and went after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.