Lexicon proginóskó: to know beforehand Original Word: προγινώσκωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: proginóskó Phonetic Spelling: (prog-in-oce'-ko) Short Definition: I know beforehand Definition: I know beforehand, foreknow. HELPS word-Studies 4267 proginṓskō (from 4253 /pró, "before" and 1097 /ginṓskō, "to know") – properly, foreknow; used in the NT of "God pre-knowing all choices – and doing so without pre-determining (requiring) them" (G. Archer). [See also Jer 18:8-10 on the perfect harmony of divine sovereignty and human freedom.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pro and ginóskóDefinitionto know beforehand NASB Translationforeknew (2), foreknown (1), knowing...beforehand (1), known (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4267: προγινώσκωπρογινώσκω; 2 aorist 3 person singular προέγνω; perfect passive participle προεγνωσμενος; to have knowledge of beforehand; to foreknow: namely, ταῦτα, 2 Peter 3:17, cf. 2 Peter 3:14, 16; τινα, Acts 26:5; οὕς προέγνω, whom he (God) foreknew, namely, that they would love him, or (with reference to what follows) whom he foreknew to be fit to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, Romans 8:29 ( τῶν εἰς αὐτόν ( Χριστόν) πιστεύειν προεγνωσμενων, Justin Martyr, dialog contr Trypho, c. 42; προγινώσκει (ὁ Θεός) τινας ἐκ μετανοίας σωθήσεσθαι μέλλοντας, id. Apology 1:28); ὅν προέγνω, whose character he clearly saw beforehand, Rom. 11:( Lachmann in brackets), (against those who in the preceding passages from Rom. explain προγινώσκειν as meaning to predestinate, cf. Meyer, Philippi, Van Hengel); προεγνωσμένου, namely, ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ (foreknown by God, although not yet 'made manifest' to men), 1 Peter 1:20. (Wis. 6:14 Wis. 8:8 Wis. 18:6; Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Herodian, Philostr., others.)
Strong's foreknow, know before. From pro and ginosko; to know beforehand, i.e. Foresee -- foreknow (ordain), know (before). see GREEK pro see GREEK ginosko |
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