proteros · before, former

What it means

proteros (πρότερος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “before, former”.

Before, earlier; the former.

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. What happened first or in a past time, compared with now.

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

How it is translated

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

• before ×3
• first ×3
• earlier ×1
• former ×1
• those who formerly ×1
• though formerly ×1
• you had formerly ×1

Where it appears

• John×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 Peter×1

• John 6:62

  Then what if you were to see the Son of Man going up where he was before?

• John 7:50

  Nicodemus, who had come to him before, being one of them, says to them,

• John 9:8

  So the neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?”

• 2 Corinthians 1:15

  And with this confidence I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second grace,

• Galatians 4:13

  and you know that it was because of a weakness of the flesh that I proclaimed the good news to you the first time;

• Ephesians 4:22

  that you put off, according to your former way of life, the old man who is being corrupted according to the desires of deceit,

• 1 Timothy 1:13

  though formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man. But I was shown mercy, because I acted in ignorance in unbelief,

• Hebrews 4:6

  Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the good news announced to them did not enter because of disobedience,

• Hebrews 7:27

  who does not have the need every day, as those high priests do, to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins, then for those of the people; for he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

• Hebrews 10:32

  But remember the earlier days in which, after you had been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings,

• 1 Peter 1:14

  As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the desires you had formerly in your ignorance,