Lexicon prothesmia: appointed beforehand Original Word: προθεσμία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: prothesmia Phonetic Spelling: (proth-es'-mee-os) Short Definition: appointed before Definition: appointed before; a previously-appointed time. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4287 prothésmios(from 4253 /pró, "before" and 5087 /títhēmi, "to place") – properly, what is set (placed) beforehand, i.e. pre-appointed, foreordained (used only in Gal 4:2). See 4286 (próthesis). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom prothesmios; from pro and thesmios (fixed, settled) Definitionappointed beforehand NASB Translationdate set (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4287: προθέσμιοςπροθέσμιος, προθεσμία, προθεσμιον ( πρό (which see in d. β.) and θεσμός fixed, appointed), set beforehand, appointed or determined beforehand, pre-arranged ( Lucian, Nigr. 27); ἡ προθεσμία, namely, ἡμέρα, the day previously appointed; universally, the pre-appointed time: Galatians 4:2. ( Lysias, Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Diodorus, Philo — cf. Siegfried, Philo, p. 113, Josephus, Plutarch, others; ecclesiastical writings; cf. Kypke and Hilgenfeld on Galatians, the passage cited.)
Strong's appointed time From pro and a derivative of tithemi; fixed beforehand, i.e. (feminine with hemera implied) a designated day -- time appointed. see GREEK pro see GREEK tithemi see GREEK hemera |
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