Lexical Summary prothesmia: appointed beforehand Original Word: προθεσμίαTransliteration: prothesmia Phonetic Spelling: (proth-es'-mee-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: appointed beforehand Meaning: appointed beforehand Strong's Concordance appointed timeFrom 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
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