πρό

πρό

prep. with genitive, [in LXX chiefly for פָּנִים ;]

before;

(a) of place: ApG 12,6, 14; 14,13, Jak 5,9; π. προσώπου (= Heb. פָּנִים, 5 Mos 3,18, Mal 3,1, al.; Bl., § 40, 9), Matt 11,10, Mark 1,2, Luk 1,76; 7,27; 9,52; 10,1, ApG 14,13;

(b) of time: Matt 8,29; 24,38, Luk 11,38; 21,12, Joh 11,55; 13,1; 17,24, ApG 5,36; 21,38, 1 Kor 2,7; 4,5, Ef 1,4, Kol 1,17, 2 Tim 1,9; 4,21, Tit 1,2, Hebr 11,5, 1 Pet 1,20, Jud 25; π. ἐτῶν δεκατεσσάρων, fourteen years ago, 2 Kor 12,2 π. προσώπου (see supr.), ApG 13,24 with genitive of person(s), Matt 5,12, Joh 5,7; 10,8, Rom 16,7, Gal 1,17; with genitive art. inf. (= πρίν; M, Pr., 100; Bl., § 69, 7), Matt 6,8 Luk 2,21; 22,15, Joh 1,49; 13,19; 17,5, ApG 23,15, Gal 2,12; 3,23; as in late writers (resembling a Latin idiom but indepen­dent of it; B1., § 40, 5; M, Pr., 100 f.; of. Am 2Ma 15,36, and for other exx., Soph., Lex., see word), πρὸ ἓξ ἡμέρας τοῦ πάσχα, on the sixth day before the Passover, Joh 12,1

(with) of preference: π. πάντων, Jak 5,12, 1 Pet 4,8;

(d) in compos.,

α with subst., of position before: προαύλιον, πρόδρομος; priority of rank or order, προπάτωρ; anticipation, πρό γνωσις, πρό νοια;

β with adj., intensity, πρόδηλος;

γ with verb., of place, προάγω, προβαίνω; of preference, προαιρέομαι.†